Example sentences of "[noun] would [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 2 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 3 | On the basis of certain assumptions about the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle and a postulated marked increase in viscosity with depth , it has been argued that convection would be confined to the asthenosphere , that is to a maximum depth of about 300 km ( Fig. 2.1 7(A) ) . |
| 4 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 5 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 6 | Her future would be devoted to her husband and children and no more would she be tempted into any indiscretions , she vowed . |
| 7 | It was officially announced on May 19 that the CPCz would be subjected to legal proceedings for defrauding the state between 1971 and 1989 by borrowing or leasing property under agreements of uncertain legality . |
| 8 | Most of the units would be let to chainstores new to the town , including the anchor store , C and A , which has taken the biggest , two-floor unit . |
| 9 | A patrol car would be sent to the house immediately , a policeman said . |
| 10 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 11 | This new pond would be connected to the present rear header pool using 4″ pipework and the header pool itself would be raised higher because this would control the level of the water in the new pond . |
| 12 | This pond would be linked to the present pond through the header pools , so effectively would be an extension and not a separate stand-alone pond . |
| 13 | Or material profits involved in the break-up of the landholdings of a lineage would be sacrificed to the symbolic profits associated with keeping the lineage 's patrimony intact . |
| 14 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 15 | In July , the Nez Perce guided Lewis and Clark along the Lolo Trail and out of their lands , after receiving assurances that American traders would be sent to their country . |
| 16 | The United States wished to secure a transitional period in which limited American military and economic aid would be extended to south Korea in the hope that the communists would be kept at bay , at least for a decent interval . |
| 17 | Even the solicitors could not say whether Legal Aid would be granted to all or any of the four families . |
| 18 | By May 18 the development ministers of the EC member states agreed that some $5,000,000 of emergency aid would be granted to Somalia , to be channelled through European non-governmental organizations as well as through the UNHCR . |
| 19 | The aid would be offered to all 12 republics , but administered through Moscow . |
| 20 | It will be remembered that during the last 30 years of life the King had suffered from a distressing illness that resulted in his being kept under guard and even put into a straight-jacket : if he had said anything about the origin of the instrument it is unlikely that much weight would be given to his words . |
| 21 | It seemed likely that the Avars would be subjected to Frankish rule , but revolt in Saxony called Charles away . |
| 22 | In order to harmonize value added tax rates within the EC , VAT on items such as flowers , building land and artworks was increased ( a move expected to raise an extra F2,000 million in revenue in the second half of 1991 ) ; VAT on cars would be reduced to 18.6 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 23 | A call by the Federation of Niger Trade Unions ( USTN ) for a general strike " in defence of democracy " was widely observed on March 2 but was called off on March 3 following government pledges that no political concessions would be made to the mutineers . |
| 24 | He felt he knew Branson well enough to surmise that it would not evolve into an equal partnership , because Branson would be bound to ‘ over-interfere ’ . |
| 25 | The attempt would be made to ‘ expose in a lucid manner the relation existing between recent enquiries , and our actual store of knowledge ’ , and not ‘ merely isolated and unconnected abstracts of the several individual investigations ’ . |
| 26 | When that day came , perhaps the tragic story of a love-sick young girl trying to find solace in the arms of her lover would be laid to rest forever . |
| 27 | Electronic gear would be exposed to radio waves at frequencies between 27 and 500 MHz , depending on where it is to be installed . |
| 28 | On Jan. 19 the government had announced that all legal parties would be submitted to certain restrictions , binding them to give prior notice to the municipal authorities of any meeting , demonstration or public gathering , along with details of the organizers . |
| 29 | A gene regulating testis determination and derived from a common mammalian ancestor would be expected to be conserved in sequence between eutherians and marsupials and to map to the marsupial Y chromosome . |
| 30 | Brooke stated that a ‘ substantial part ’ of its turnover would be devoted to ‘ good causes ’ , but the Bill does not set out what proportion of the proceeds will be allocated respectively to prizes , to administration and to the said good causes . |