Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after my robbery I had thought all this action would be to my benefit . |
| 2 | The only thing that would be worse than uncertainty would be to be given duff information . |
| 3 | One more match played under this ridiculous rule would be to many . |
| 4 | To form one good mixed practice would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 5 | There is little doubt that the effect would be to drastically reduce the number of generic substitutes supplied by pharmacists . |
| 6 | Equally , to ignore the constraints of poetry would be to ‘ destroy the poetic line as a specific , verbal structure based on those facets of the word which retreat into the background in ordinary speech ’ ( Brik 1978 : 124 ) . |
| 7 | The dance would be to her tune . |
| 8 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 9 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 10 | The outcome would be to ‘ enhance the academic responsibility of the institutions of higher education ’ , as well as diminishing the administrative pressure on the CNAA . |
| 11 | Technically a showing of such a film in private to members of a racist club or group would fall within the terms of the section , since the showing would be to a section of the public . |
| 12 | I gave him a frown and told him to mind his manners because I was n't sure what the old lady 's reaction would be to my brother . |
| 13 | Erm , over the page , the section , and the session , training needs position , erm , the erm , the work of the consultants has been completed , and we 've still not got a report from Tech or any indication of , of erm , what their reaction would be to the , to the report which comes out . |
| 14 | ‘ I was not sure what the general public 's reaction would be to Swan Lake . |
| 15 | One fairly obvious procedure would be to weight each d by the number of cases it was based on . |
| 16 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 17 | My ideal would be to not give a damn as much as possible . |
| 18 | In Kent , the natural progression for a care manager would be to group leader , supervising five to ten care managers , then to locality manager , and finally to one of five area commissioners . |
| 19 | … such an arrangement would be to the advantage of the WEA , provided that the partnership in the Joint Committee is genuine and that the WEA retains and exercises the right of providing its own classes as may seem appropriate . |
| 20 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 21 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 22 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 23 | The SNP thought that if the ‘ independence-union ’ alternative was stressed , the crumbling of British Labour support would be to its benefit . |
| 24 | My understanding is that A those do n't exist at present within the deposit plan , but if they did at some future date , for any reason , that their function would be to be used after two thousand and six to sustain the permanence of the greenbelt . |
| 25 | Naturally they accepted , knowing how invaluable his expertise would be to them . |
| 26 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 27 | and you are never revealed on your battle field would be to erm phone up Trailfinders or S T A , I think I might 've asked S T A , and find out which would be the best card , which would be the best card to have . |
| 28 | ‘ However , the one thing the southern hemisphere does know a thing or two about is rugby union and to close the door would be to the detriment of the English game in the long run . |
| 29 | The address stated that the primary objective of the government would be to " restore the dignity of the nation and of the individual " . |
| 30 | But the mestizo was a gangster and his prime loyalty would be to himself . |