Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 2 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |
| 3 | Without this , human language would be limited to mentioning phrases , in principle indefinitely many , and in principle without restriction on their length , but still merely phrases , not construed into a whole capable of constituting a statement ( or a question or a command ) . |
| 4 | This was to be raised by various subscribers who would be limited to buying twenty shares each . |
| 5 | Urban transport would be reduced by 40 per cent and taxi services would be limited to taking people to hospital or to funerals . |
| 6 | The implication would seem to be that some lives could be ‘ so demonstrably awful ’ that the doctor 's legal duty would be limited to making the child comfortable and allowing it to die . |
| 7 | Its task would be limited to ensuring free and fair multiracial elections to a constitution-making body ( a constituent assembly ) . |
| 8 | The budget would still be a tight one , but it would be geared to maintaining business investment as we approach the post-1992 European single market , and limiting the effects of the recession on business . |
| 9 | John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , made a blistering attack on the Government 's under-investment in rail , and promised that Labour 's transport policies would be geared to preventing environmental damage . |
| 10 | They were told that consideration would be given to allocating houses which became vacant to Springtown residents and that discussions had taken place with the rural district council and the NIHT about allocations of houses by them . |
| 11 | Priority would be given to improving the country 's infrastructure and boosting production . |
| 12 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 13 | For three and a half years these lines would be advanced less than 16km/10mls in either direction , and Allied strategy would be devoted to penetrating this formidable barrier . |
| 14 | Compensating this apparent service cut for mentally ill patients was the fact that most of the capital to be set aside for the service developments would be devoted to building the replacement facilities in the community for the two psychiatric hospitals to close . |
| 15 | Kibona said that 42 per cent of government spending would be devoted to tackling transport and communications problems , which were hindering economic recovery . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 18 | Some master , equally lonely , would be set to giving him extra essays and physical training to keep him occupied . |
| 19 | If permanent employment was a universal feature labour would become a quasi-fixed factor in production and the room for adjusting costs would be confined to altering working hours or bonus payments . |
| 20 | Firstly , it was not entirely unexpected that giant multinational German companies would be committed to providing a comprehensive language training service . |
| 21 | In the run-up to implementation there was naturally some concern , as it was obvious from the outset that changes would be required to accounting procedures and practices , personnel matters , and local control and management of resources . |