Example sentences of "would be [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first move of a Government committed to re-establishing full employment comprehensively would be to initiate a rolling programme of moving Civil Service jobs from areas of high employment , mainly in the South , to those of high unemployment , predominantly in the North . |
| 2 | One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds . |
| 3 | To call this a ‘ life ’ cycle would be to beg an important question , but it is a cycle of a sort , and it shares with true life cycles the ability to initiate cumulative selection . |
| 4 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 5 | One possible remedy would be to employ a time-varying parameter technique in estimation as in Browne and McNellis ( 1990 ) . |
| 6 | This would be to substitute a judicial view as to , for example , the most appropriate way in which to allocate aid , or to disburse licences , for that of the public body . |
| 7 | On Sunday afternoons the Vicar of Askrigg used to pass Semerwater on his way to take evensong in his other parish of Stalling Busk , and he often thought how pleasant it would be to hold an open air service on the shores of the lake . |
| 8 | One possibility would be to evolve a qualified defence of killing under extreme emotional disturbance , following the lead of the Model Penal Code . |
| 9 | For example a useful practical derived test of the properties of leather in shoes would be to flex a real shoe in a test machine to determine the relation between loads and displacements relevant to the wearer . |
| 10 | ‘ the thing to do would be to take an optical theodolite up there and measure it . ’ |
| 11 | However , despite an apparent dictum to the contrary , the Torquay Hotel principle does not , it is submitted , extend to imposing liability in a case where A has , without any unlawful act , done no more than persuade B to exercise an option open to him under his contract with C , for example , to terminate it by proper notice , for so to hold would be to draw an indefensible distinction between existing , but terminable , relationships and those which are merely prospective , and render it necessary to fall back on the defence of justification in order , for example , lawfully to persuade an employee to change his employment for higher pay . |
| 12 | According to the statement the sole task of the new People 's Assembly would be to draft a new constitution to be placed before the people for approval . |
| 13 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 14 | It is not , of course , possible to apply full text retrieval to such a database and an effective option would be to use a relational database management system with keyword-based searching . |
| 15 | Once established , the Committee 's major task would be to devise a unified pattern of awards at the craft level , in accordance with the spirit of the Hudson proposals . |
| 16 | We knew that the one way to get the world 's two greatest detectives to come here would be to stage a mysterious disappearance . |
| 17 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 18 | The first would be to create an appointed senate , which would allow Khmer Rouge leaders to be given an official role . |
| 19 | To think that the Archives are standing idle by , however , would be to give a false impression . |
| 20 | A more realistic objective for many organisations would be to strike an appropriate balance at the conceptual stage between the benefits from reduced risk , the expense of that reduction and the gains from the enterprise . |
| 21 | The effect of the 25 per cent reduction in fares would be to place an inordinate burden on the ratepayers , particularly because this would be accompanied by a known loss of rate support grant . |
| 22 | Their only chance of such would be to marry a wealthy man , because as source A also describes , before 1919 no woman was allowed a complete education , and therefore they never achieved positions in highly paid jobs , such as lawyers . |
| 23 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 24 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 25 | From the point of view of the ‘ host ’ or ‘ hostess ’ the most immediate benefit of showing art would be to enhance a pleasant ambience , but the more ambitious would also be seeking to attract a certain clientele by offering more than the comfort of food . |
| 26 | To mention him would be to revive an old humiliation . |
| 27 | The best it could do would be to permit a small degree of enclave development , which only reproduced First World-Third World exploitation within the Third World . |
| 28 | The usual advice would be to suggest a private meeting between the chairman , the head teacher and the parent who raised the issue . |
| 29 | The way I would start forming a band would be to get a bass player and drummer first ; get a core of people who are on my wavelength , especially on the bass , and a drummer who 's got a really good right hand , almost like a jazz player , who can play light and not just hard . |
| 30 | The quickest way to improve rural wages would be to locate a small engineering factory in every village — a utopian thought , no doubt . |