Example sentences of "would be [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 3 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 4 | First , instead of a figure based on shares , the members ' liability would be limited to a fixed sum expressed in the memorandum of association on registration of the company . |
| 5 | Paul Devereux has called these lines ‘ geomantic corridors ’ , where the same standards of straightness which would be applied to a traditional ley are inappropriate . |
| 6 | What would really terrify him would be to take to an experienced orchestra a Rachmaninov symphony , or well-known works , where everyone had expectations of a fresh miracle . |
| 7 | Cardinal Jozef Glemp , the primate of Poland , claimed that the 1987 agreement under which the nuns at the Carmelite convent would be re-located to an inter-faith centre nearby , had been negotiated by " incompetent " people and was a violation of the nuns ' rights . |
| 8 | Financial responsibility for giving support would be delegated to a local level in order to rekindle civic responsibility . |
| 9 | Some British students might actually do the course , though they would be kept to a small minority . |
| 10 | In the future evolution of society under women 's guidance , sex would be raised to a higher plane , where physical passion would be transmuted by the power of human love . |
| 11 | If agreement could not be reached with a reporter on disputed material , it would be sent to a joint information bureau in Dhahran , and , if still unresolved , to the US Assistant Secretary of Defence responsible for public affairs . |
| 12 | Should this be accepted , he would escape a mandatory life sentence for each murder and would be sent to a mental hospital , with the prospect of release if the trial judge were to accept a petition that he was no longer mentally ill nor a danger to the public . |
| 13 | Sometimes a young civil servant would be appointed to a subordinate revenue position immediately after passing the first law examination . |
| 14 | The leads from the stop-watch would go to a box containing a small battery which in its turn would be connected to a flash bulb at the base of the bomb . |
| 15 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |
| 16 | The new code would be subjected to a three-month consultation period and was expected to become effective in the autumn of 1990 . |
| 17 | Perhaps more important , the Earth would be subjected to a greater than usual bombardment of material from space . |
| 18 | Prince Bola Ajibola , the Minister of Justice and federal Attorney General , confirmed on Sept. 12 that power would be handed to a civilian administration on Oct. 1 , 1992 , as planned , in spite of adjustments to the interim timetable . |
| 19 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 20 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |
| 21 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 22 | Incidentally , a first grading would be awarded to a typical dog of good conformation , with only minor faults , a very good representative of the breed . |
| 23 | The top rate of value added tax ( 22 per cent ) would be reduced to a new upper rate of 18.6 per cent from April 13 , 1992 , rather than Jan. 1 , 1993 [ see also p. 38297 ] . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend has long experience in the mining industry and is aware that the proposed privatised operation at Monktonhall would be restricted to an underground work force of only 150 people . |
| 25 | Due to the low pay offered the likelihood was that anyone with creative talent would be attracted to a better-paid job elsewhere . |
| 26 | The prospect of talks diminished after Fujimori 's announcement on May 24 that the proposal for the " constitutional congress " would be put to a national plebescite on July 6 . |
| 27 | He was then granted full power for six months as well as authority to draw up a new constitution , which would be put to a popular referendum for ratification . |
| 28 | The mines would be confined to a narrow line of dunes which separate Lake St Lucia from the sea , but would still cause irreparable damage to the wetland as a whole , ecologists believe . |
| 29 | Within the course half the time would be allocated to a compulsory core curriculum and half to self directed learning . |
| 30 | Housewives would have the same relationship to the state as public employees , except that the services they render would be allocated to an unchanging unit in an unchanging place — namely , their own families in their own homes . |