Example sentences of "would be to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our advise would be to first speak to your accountants who would be able to talk you through the various options which are : |
| 2 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 3 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 4 | More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported . |
| 5 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |
| 6 | One more match played under this ridiculous rule would be to many . |
| 7 | that would be to English law questions which we 're certain of interest today |
| 8 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 9 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 10 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 11 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 12 | But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life . |
| 13 | If a distribution to shareholders was classed as a form of spending by a company , such payments would be taxed as now , leaving the undistributed profits to accumulate free of tax ; what an encouragement it would be to foreign manufacturers to start business here , with all the advantages to us of new jobs created and a resulting trade improvement . |
| 14 | One way to determine this would be to old an ordinary ruler at arms length and note how many millimetres the width of an object appears to occupy . |
| 15 | ‘ I am aware of the nature of it and how offensive it would be to most MPs and most people in this country . ’ |
| 16 | Surprisingly more than half the girls — even though they were aware of their right to confidentiality — would be to embarrassed to talk to a doctor about sex or contraception . |
| 17 | They want to use condoms — nine out of 10 agreed it was sensible to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ — but half those surveyed said they would be to embarrassed to buy them . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt I needed advice about the base unit because I was n't sure how easy it would be to mass produce from the prototype which had hemispheres studded into it . |
| 19 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 20 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |