Example sentences of "this would [verb] [prep] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight this would appear to be a new development , but in reality it reflects a long-term trend which has been masked until now by a series of new acquisitions which have increased total sales each year . |
| 2 | This would appear to be a herculean task for the relatively efficient and an impossible one for everyone else . |
| 3 | At first sight , this would appear to be a Community instrument instructing Member States as to how to exercise their national competence . |
| 4 | From the evidence of the biographical sources , this would appear to be a nearly complete list of the mevleviyet kadiliks of the time ; the only surprising omission is the kadilik of Mecca , which seems to have been a mevleviyet for some years before 963 . |
| 5 | Prima facie this would appear to be a classic Stilk v. Myrick case . |
| 6 | This would appear to be a major company with Australian connections . |
| 7 | This would appear to be a higher standard than that required in the United Kingdom where copyright law has developed in a pragmatic rather than principled manner . |
| 8 | 16a ) but , if drawn accurately , this would appear to be a stylised version of more elegant examples . |
| 9 | To eliminate the possibility of this would seem to be a retrograde step . |
| 10 | As an initial hypothesis , this seems reasonable : given the amounts of money involved in the experiment , and the fact that their payment was the total over the eight periods of the experiment , this would seem to be a reasonable approximation . |
| 11 | Moreover , given the open-ended nature of this phrase and the already existing divergence of opinion among the national courts as to how those words are to be interpreted , this would seem to be a classic situation for the UK courts to give effect to Community law by interpretation of the national law so as to achieve congruence between the national and the Community norms . |
| 12 | This would seem to be a more constructive approach than simply locking up individuals . |
| 13 | What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science . |
| 14 | If I was only allowed to have one jazz record this would have to be a contender , together with number 8 . |