Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] would [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNP thought that if the ‘ independence-union ’ alternative was stressed , the crumbling of British Labour support would be to its benefit . |
| 2 | Immediately after my robbery I had thought all this action would be to my benefit . |
| 3 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 4 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 5 | There is a belief that mild mental handicap may in a sense be inherited in a way that most severe mental handicaps are not , although public understanding would be to the contrary . |
| 6 | Mosbacher justified his decision on the grounds that to substitute population estimates in place of actual figures would be to " abandon a 200-year tradition of how we actually count people " . |
| 7 | Such changes would be to the long-term good of the United Kingdom 's economy . |
| 8 | It was not clear whether such moves would be to their benefit . |
| 9 | One fairly obvious procedure would be to weight each d by the number of cases it was based on . |
| 10 | Applications for larger penalties would be to the High Court . |
| 11 | But the mestizo was a gangster and his prime loyalty would be to himself . |
| 12 | I suppose that a better expression would be to frankly admit I was getting stale . |
| 13 | He is blind to the independent studies that have been carried out on that programme , such as that by Professor Snower of Birkbeck college , which demonstrates clearly and beyond doubt how damaging those proposals would be to the creation of jobs in this country . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One more match played under this ridiculous rule would be to many . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fairest way would be to just run off the four remaining races , perhaps before another Exeter meeting . ’ |
| 18 | One solution would be to silicone the hangar to the tank wall , but that would mean draining the tank . |
| 19 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 20 | When I was about ten years old , a trip to the village from the South end was a bigger thrill than a trip to a big city would be to a present day child , later working in the village as a teenager , the dances every Saturday and Monday night was enjoyment never to be forgot . |
| 21 | The dating of an artefact to the span of a single generation would be to a degree of accuracy which would provide a powerful tool for the study of Anglo-Saxon society . |
| 22 | The purpose of a Scottish Euro Unit would be to : |
| 23 | To form one good mixed practice would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 24 | The best thing would be to s sort of say I do n't know but the sort of thing which came into my mind were questions like you know , Which accents do you think |
| 25 | The most obvious way of obtaining these two facilities would be to keyboard the Supplement entries into the correct places as the OED text was being keyboarded . |