Example sentences of "would be for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative , if three of the commoners continued to hold out , would be for them all to claim compensation for lost rights from the Lands Tribunal . |
| 2 | The further west Allied aircraft could be stationed , the easier it would be for them to protect the sea lanes which were vulnerable to enemy air power based in Sicily and Crete . |
| 3 | This is the relevance of rules ; for the courts to embrace such an issue would be for them to breach the long-standing settlement with regard to the boundaries of parliamentary privilege ( see below , pp.113–19 ) and they would not do it . |
| 4 | But a better answer would be for them to be prohibited from driving cars above 1.3 litres — a common engine capacity — until they are 25 . |
| 5 | It would be for them to decide what to do with our report . |
| 6 | Another option would be for her to negotiate some ‘ good quality ’ time for them to spend together , when they give each other the best of their attention . |
| 7 | Betsy suggested that the best solution to the problem would be for her to take over command of Clytus and continue trading . |
| 8 | It would be for her a retreat , a spiritual renewal . |
| 9 | And it struck Shiona , not for the first time , as she looked into those blue , accusing eyes , how easy it would be for her to clear her name . |
| 10 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 11 | It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue . |
| 12 | I thought what a good idea it would be for me to do the same and I kept this in mind . |
| 13 | Ron and I thought that the best way to arrange this would be for me to interview the Prince about his uncle , and to tack the result on to the end of the obituary programme . |
| 14 | I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work . |
| 15 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 16 | I have kept my half of the bargain , though I never guessed how costly it would be for me . |
| 17 | ‘ It would be for me , ’ he said quietly . |
| 18 | Think back to Jem Higgins and ask yourself of what use it would be for me to preach your message to him . ’ |
| 19 | " THE simplest thing , I think , " Matthew Preston said to Sara , " would be for me to buy you out — your share of the house , I mean . |
| 20 | Asked by Hot Press magazine if he would be prepared to kill or die for Ulster , Mr Wilson said : ‘ I certainly would not allow terrorists to dictate the future that would be for me , my family and my community . |
| 21 | A natural follow-up would be for him to make a model van , perhaps like one of his dad 's . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid sir , I have no knowledge , I have n't certainly myself spoken to anybody with regard to that , I would of thought the normal procedure would be for him to be committed to Preston Crown Court and for the Crown Courts thereafter to sort out the final venue . |
| 23 | I would have thought the normal procedure would be for him to be committed to Preston Crown Court and for the Crown Courts thereafter to sort out the final venue . |
| 24 | The Court would however respectfully disagree with the observation made in Emerson that no purpose would be served by bringing the jury back into open court to hear the tape ; this was a matter for the judge 's discretion but the better practice would be for him to order the reassembling of the court so that the jury could hear the tape in open court . |
| 25 | Small pardon there would be for him if Herluin had his way . |
| 26 | Just a young man like Johnny , whose life had ended there in the fields of a foreign land , which would be for him , she supposed , forever Germany . |
| 27 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 28 | Maman 's perception had probably told how impossible it would be for him to part with any of her things in his lifetime . |
| 29 | ‘ He had asked the country for a mandate for Tariff Reform , this had been refused , and the honourable thing would be for him to resign at once . ’ |
| 30 | For the DUP to embrace this accord and attempt to make it work would be for it to abandon its opposition to anything which presages a united Ireland . |