Example sentences of "would be [adj] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be prudent to assume that the GRU , in collaboration with its clients , is effective at identifying needs and diverting what it purloins to the right places . |
| 2 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 3 | It would be mischievous to suggest that pupils who pay attention to the teacher 's traditional emphases in primary mathematics give themselves a positive disadvantage for future success in mathematics , but the evidence seems to point in this direction . |
| 4 | Experiments using radio links are a problem in the UK because , although easy to do , it would be illegal to make and use the necessary apparatus . |
| 5 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 6 | It would be absurd to say that they have become one . |
| 7 | It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near . |
| 8 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 9 | There is nothing to suggest any direct seigneurial interest in the plot or characters of the tale ; although the comedy of Dame Sirith does at least assume knowledge and recognition of the conventions of chivalric behaviour , it would be absurd to suggest that knowledge of such conventions was socially limited in any significant way in the later thirteenth century . |
| 10 | For the purposes of sensationalism and drama it would be pleasant to report that he burst in with a look of alarm and a shout of excitement , or some fancy combination of both . |
| 11 | It would be pleasant to use that soap every day . |
| 12 | It would be pleasant to lie and chat now , for a quiet half-hour or so , while the shadows lengthened over the lawn . |
| 13 | It would be pleasant to think that this decision was made purely on conservation and environmental grounds , but on all the evidence of the past this seems unlikely . |
| 14 | I would be delighted to think that it might be . ’ |
| 15 | You have a reputation of not letting go of a thing once you have started and you would be delighted to discover that I am responsible for Ana 's blindness . |
| 16 | It would be tedious to quote and consider every one of the tributes that Pound paid to Binyon . |
| 17 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 18 | It would be smug to imagine that all such violence is across the Atlantic . |
| 19 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 20 | It would be impertinent to suggest that Keynes dichotomised his private and professional life and in this sense discretionary monetary policy and deficit spending by government although recommended as a technical solution to a technical problem , must be seen as the prescriptions of a self-confessed immoralist . |
| 21 | He can not accept that he was created by God because this would prove that his power lies in his enemy 's hands and it would be ludicrous to revolt for he would ultimately be revolting against himself . |
| 22 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 23 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 24 | This position would be impossible to tolerate if the UK government made serious attempts to put its own excise duty house in order . |
| 25 | Where there is a large number of transactions — the notice mentions 30,000 records — I do not think we should simply consider an isolated case where it would be impossible to say whether there had been a direct benefit from the acquisition of the wrappers or not . |
| 26 | They have the vital factor of the opposable thumb , without which it would be impossible to handle and investigate objects with any degree of manual dexterity . |
| 27 | These were already available and would be cheap to duplicate or modify : — |
| 28 | He therefore wanted a mile-eater that would be cheap to run and repair . |
| 29 | She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money . |
| 30 | Items of particular relevance to futures trading are as follows : ( 1 ) A statement of the customer 's investment objectives ( unless included in a separate document ) : If futures trading is to be undertaken otherwise than for purely hedging purposes , it would be necessary to document that the customer 's investment objectives were speculative . |