Example sentences of "would be [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 3 | It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have . |
| 4 | In 1920 , considering ‘ the impotence of contemporary drama ’ , he had concluded that ‘ The natural evolution , for us , would be to proceed in the direction indicated by Browning ; to distil the dramatic essences , if we can , and infuse them into some other liquor . ’ |
| 5 | To infer the existence of such a duty from the mere possibility that the mother was with child when she was received as a passenger by the defendants would be to act without the sanction of any judicial decision or , in my opinion , of any legal principle . |
| 6 | But this fact alone would hardly entitle a beneficiary to execution in rem against a third party : to allow that would be to indulge in a breach of fundamental principle and equity . |
| 7 | Far more effective , he considered ( and there was no anti-Semitism involved , though inevitably most of the recent refugees were Jews ) , would be to put on the air people who , while speaking intelligible German , would be identified as representative British people . |
| 8 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 9 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 10 | Assuming that we wanted to explore the harmonic potential of a basic C major scale ( remember you can and should apply this approach to other scale types as well ! ) , the first step would be to play through the triads ( a suggested fingering with each maj chord voiced 1,5,1,3 , each min chord voiced 1,2,1 , ♭3 , and the diminished chord voiced 1 , ♭5,1 , ♭3 is given in fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 12 | The more those kids were deprived and maltreated , the more motivated they would be to get aboard the enterprise culture and start creating wealth . |
| 13 | All living systems have a history which shapes the way they function today — to attempt to cure environmental ills without understanding their origin would be to operate on a patient without ever consulting the medical case notes . |
| 14 | But for the radical interpreter , this would be to throw in the towel at a crucial conceptual conjuncture , imputing our intentional framework to another , dumb species . |
| 15 | Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance . |
| 16 | In that case , one way of inflicting a loss of profit in retaliation for reneging on the agreement would be to revert to the NE of the one-shot game , either permanently or for a number of periods sufficient to wipe out the gains from reneging , if that is possible . |
| 17 | All we would need to do would be to chop off the head of the price raisers . |
| 18 | THE past decade has proved just how foolhardy it would be to gaze into the crystal ball and confidently predict what lies ahead in the next 10 years . |
| 19 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 20 | To think otherwise would be to succumb to the glamour and particularity with which seniority was invested by the boys themselves ; the critical fact was that , in the fullness of time , little boys who were beaten by big ones might reasonably expect to do the beating themselves . |
| 21 | The aim of a programme to expand primary care would be to provide in the community services currently provided in hospitals where this is appropriate and cost effective . |
| 22 | A primary role of the party in the new disposition , he said , would be to work against the threat of social polarization inherent in restructuring and the move towards a market economy . |
| 23 | He decided eventually that to embrace Buddhism would be to plunge into a world too culturally alien . |
| 24 | However , this argument was rejected in the House of Lords and Lord Wilberforce ( at p372 ) said that to : … suppose that the assignments were made not by way of sale but by way of security would be to impose upon the parties a form of transaction totally different from that which they had selectednamely , one of saleand of which there was no evidence whatsoever that either of them desired … |
| 25 | An even more revealing way to consider the changes in the popularity of divorce would be to look at the proportion of each marriage cohort that divorces after a particular period of time . |
| 26 | Abstracting from these difficult matters , an attractive approach to inequality would be to look at the lifetime purchasing power broadly defined over goods and services enjoyed by individuals , appropriately discounted to give a common basis for comparison . |
| 27 | Another method would be to look at the Automobile Association 's figures on the cost of running a motor car of that engine capacity or at the cost of hiring such a car . |
| 28 | Perhaps the best course would be to speak in the debate on policy and public relations , a pretty appeal for less of the first and more of the second ? |
| 29 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 30 | For while they indicate how complicated and taxing it would be to build inside the scaffolding erected by Althusser , they do not show either that the building would stand or that it is doomed to collapse . |