Example sentences of "would be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 2 | British detectives would be posted to Miami , Florida , where the FBI 's Caribbean fraud team would use their considerable resources to support them . |
| 3 | One thousand police would be posted to the suburbs that summer and 12 more " houses of justice " would be built as centres for dispute settlement and advisory services . |
| 4 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 5 | It should be replaced , in Burlatsky 's view , by a different concept , ‘ public , self-managing socialism ’ , in which many functions presently performed by the state would be devolved to civil society and its institutions . |
| 6 | Now , the question for parishes would th they would n't be abolished , the , the question is , how much additional powers and responsibilities would be devolved to the parishes , and that 's the question . |
| 7 | Control of most branches of the economy , except for fuel , energy , metallurgy and communications , would be devolved to the republics . |
| 8 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 9 | He vowed it would be empowered to ‘ return Scottish water to the ownership and control of local authorities ’ . |
| 10 | The Whitsun visitors would follow the Easter ones ; in no time at all the hotels would be jammed to the doors . |
| 11 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 12 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 14 | It said that a strike would be damaging to the company and to its staff . |
| 15 | The Alliance wanted television yet feared that it would be damaging to them , as Alliance MPs are allowed such a small share of parliamentary time . |
| 16 | ACAS refused to recommend recognition partly because to do so would arouse strong opposition from the other unions with a risk of industrial action which would be damaging to the industry . |
| 17 | We are determined to resist calls for a fortress Europe , which would be damaging to world trade . |
| 18 | As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me , uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector . |
| 19 | However , he added , like all ministers , the Chancellor would be moving to a more environment-friendly machine in the fullness of time . |
| 20 | Instead , there was an announcement , accompanied by a great hoo-hah , that the authority and its 800 jobs would be moving to the bay . |
| 21 | It would , Burlatsky suggested , be based upon a wide variety of property forms , including state property which would be developed to the higher level of public ownership of the whole people . |
| 22 | It was planned to fly food to the north-east Kenyan town of Wajir , from where it would be trucked to Somali refugees living in UN camps along the Kenyan border or sent by air into Somalia . |
| 23 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 24 | In a speech on Nov. 12 the United States President Bush announced that US diplomatic representation in Laos would be upgraded to ambassadorial level for the first time since the communist regime came to power in 1975 . |
| 25 | The antiprotons would follow the same path through the magnets — but in the opposite direction to the protons — and would be accelerated to the same energies . |
| 26 | ‘ The portfolios which gave rise to this problem were those under which , besides guaranteed income payments , there was a guarantee that a stated sum would be repaid to the investor at the future maturity date of his chosen stock . ’ |
| 27 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 28 | Some dealers , all sitting together , would be listening to these lines for hours on end . |
| 29 | In short , they and their children would be condemned to grinding poverty and , if their income comes from the state , to permanent state surveillance , not in this case for cohabitation but for ‘ scrounging ’ . |
| 30 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |