Example sentences of "would have been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose they 'd have been used to going there before you see . |
| 2 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |
| 3 | Their main conclusion is that the earliest occupants of the Klasies River Mouth site ( before 100 000 years ago ) were modern-looking people ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) who would have been ancestral to the indigenous African Negro and Klioisan peoples . |
| 4 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 5 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 6 | It is therefore significant that this feature is also seen in the Trias of Spain and Morocco , which , according to the most generally accepted plate reconstructions , would have been close to the eastern seaboard of the States . |
| 7 | She would have been close to Alain . |
| 8 | Mind you I suppose it would have been close to the house . |
| 9 | Saxon Christianity in Kiev would have been tantamount to an attack , at least culturally , on the Byzantine flank . |
| 10 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 11 | To do otherwise would have been tantamount to branding yourself an obscene , inhuman monster , an outcast from civilized society . |
| 12 | To brand the Celtic Church heretical would have been tantamount to a declaration of war ; and in the event of such a war , Rome would have had no prospect whatever of victory . |
| 13 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 14 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 15 | This primitive image would have been appropriate to the fierce power of the sun in the eastern deserts . |
| 16 | ‘ Under normal tax law , these would have been available to the enlarged group under the same conditions and to the same extent as for any other UK group . ’ |
| 17 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 18 | If only he had thought of recorking his wine after dégorgement , then the perfectly limpid sparkling wine he had managed to achieve for himself and , no doubt , passed on as a ‘ tip ’ to others , would have been available to everybody . |
| 19 | It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place . |
| 20 | At least three of these cars would have been useful to Leeds , when the remainder were sold to them , if only as a source of spare parts . |
| 21 | Perhaps one is being a little punctilious , but some clarification of these , and other , matters would have been helpful to the novice . |
| 22 | There is no evidence that Rolle received his Bachelor 's degree , and his frequent scathing remarks on the uselessness of scholarly argument as a means to the knowledge of God indicate that the intellectual training offered at Oxford would have been uncongenial to him . |
| 23 | They would have been invaluable to the inquiry — and to the crew , as book and movie offers pour in — but were lost when the wreck was smashed to pieces on the island 's rocks . |
| 24 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 25 | The commission at 2.5 per cent would have been 25 , and a fee of 4 ( 1.5 ) = 6 would have been payable to the clearing house . |
| 26 | In a statement to the Skupština in July 1987 ( Politika , 25 July ( 987 ) , the vice-president of the government mentioned that the total foreign exchange losses of banks and ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ( presumably at that time ) amounted to 10,000 billion dinars , which would have been equivalent to about $15 billion at the current rate of exchange . |
| 27 | High water tables would have been conducive to hot springs at elevated locations , without requiring changes in the intensity of heat sources . |
| 28 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 29 | In the 1920s and 1930s a large percentage of the so-called ancient material which would have been familiar to interested collectors was the product of this well-established manufacture . |
| 30 | One item , at least , would have been familiar to her : a folded booklet of pornographic pictures , printed in Denmark . |