Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The Labour Party would be relegated to the position of a group , and would probably sit below the gangway on the Liberal side of the House . |
| 3 | The UK Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker , announced on Sept. 17 that the case of Judith Ward , sentenced to life imprisonment at Wakefield Crown Court in 1974 for the IRA bombing of a coach carrying soldiers and their families on the M62 motorway in Yorkshire [ see pp. 26873-74 ] , would be referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | Mr Paleokrassas said he could not say how much money would be granted to the industry , but added it was likely to be ‘ quite substantial ’ . |
| 5 | It would be limited to the function it is most useful for in the language classroom : intensive listening . |
| 6 | However , even here there are some differences : the German position , officially supported by Bonn , is that work should be based on the international agreements signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin , under which the issue would be limited to the return of treasures located on their territory . |
| 7 | ‘ But the damage would be limited to the plane . |
| 8 | One of the critics of the Touche Ross report , Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the department of politics at Strathclyde University , said last night that it now looked as if the scope for savings would be narrowed to the point where it had to be asked whether it was worthwhile proceeding with the reforms . |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that he received representations from both the British Tourist Authority and the English tourist board about the damage that would be done to the industry by the restrictions on part-time working and on working hours which are so beloved of Labour ? |
| 10 | £4,000 would be applied to the building and the rest to the endowment ; the builder had received £2,000 on account . |
| 11 | Then niello would be applied to the rim decoration , applied to the recesses as a powder , cast , ground and polished . |
| 12 | He welcomed the endorsement by USL of OSF layered products , said that DEC 's Network Applications Support ( NAS ) services would be ported to the system by autumn of next year , along with versions for HP/UX and AIX and said that both USL and DEC would be prepared to help anybody who felt like porting Destiny to the Alpha chip . |
| 13 | He would be treated to the kind of service his carrier is struggling to achieve and might even pick up a few tips on how an airline should be run . |
| 14 | The proposal for monitoring by silent , closed-circuit television cameras , he said , would be implemented as recommended , but the one to allow a prisoner the right to consult a solicitor every forty-eight hours would be curtailed to the extent that ‘ where it is thought necessary ’ a senior police officer would be present . |
| 15 | The staff of the receiving primary school would be alerted to the child 's particular needs . |
| 16 | Thereupon we all agreed solemnly that it was a private matter and that no announcement would be made to the press . |
| 17 | The White Paper working paper on funding and contracts for hospital services envisages three broad classes of contract ; block contracts , under which the GP or DHA would pay the hospital an annual fee in return for access to a defined range of services ; cost and volume contracts , under which hospitals would receive a sum in respect of a baseline level of activity , defined in terms of a given number of treatments or cases , and cost per case contracts , where payment would be made to the hospital on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment of either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with . |
| 18 | Salt water would be pumped to the top and released to fall as artificial rain , meeting hot air rising from openings at the bottom . |
| 19 | In its brief analysis of the impact of the Channel Tunnel it estimated that some £5m passengers ( or 50,000 air passenger movements ) would be diverted to the tunnel in 1995 rising to 6m ( 65,000 movements ) in 2000 . |
| 20 | Perhaps they feared that too many of his energies would be diverted to the campaign . |
| 21 | Otherwise large tracts of land would be lost to the sea . |
| 22 | Not a piece would be saved , but they would be lost to the French as well . |
| 23 | The company said it was advised last week by the US Federal Trade Commission that no objection would be raised to the acquisition of up to 15 per cent of Jaguar shares . |
| 24 | He said that the commission 's findings would be presented to the Council of Ministers as soon as they were completed . |
| 25 | He was resolved to meet every possible criticism in advance and , eventually , his conclusions would be presented to the world in a scholarly book . |
| 26 | It was arranged that later in the afternoon they would be conducted to the Monastery of Saint James ; they would be lodged that night in the village , and would return again to the church the following day for their devotions . |
| 27 | Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership . |
| 28 | Mr Morraine shouted at him and Mr Jotter said any more slacking and he would be sent to the Headmaster . |
| 29 | The agency 's special envoy , Jose Maria Mendiluce , told a news conference that convoys protected by UN peace keeping troops would be sent to the area next week , whether Serbs besieging Muslims towns and villages agreed or not . |
| 30 | Old Henry took his hat off and publicly beat Cromwell , telling him he was a caitiff and a knave and would be sent to the Tower . |