Example sentences of "would [adv] [be] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , when quantum effects were taken into account , it seemed that the mass or energy of the matter would eventually be returned to the rest of the universe , and that the black hole , along with any singularity inside it , would evaporate away and finally disappear .
2 This court had to decide in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 whether to withhold consent to abstain from giving mechanical ventilation in the interests of artificially prolonging life , whatever pain and suffering would thereby be caused to the child .
3 Despite requests by the PNG government for further military assistance from Australia , which had already loaned the security forces several attack helicopters for use against the rebels , the Australian government stated on Jan. 20 that troops would only be sent to the island to protect Australian nationals .
4 English was , as it were , placed fully in the hands of the critic rather than the author , and the author would henceforth be admitted to the pantheon only on condition of a complete and " first-hand " revaluation .
5 It was announced on Sept. 1 that the Albanian lek would henceforth be linked to the European currency unit at an initial rate of ECU1=30 leks ( US$1.00=25 leks ) .
6 We feel that any such development would necessarily be linked to the introduction of standardized menus .
7 In fact , they would finally be reduced to the level of docile beasts of burden .
8 Interest would accrue on a daily basis but would normally be pegged to the RPI so the real rate would be zero .
9 The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ .
10 It goes like this : back in 1983 local people decided they were fed up with repeated Indonesian Government promises that the village would soon be connected to the national electricity grid .
11 On Dec. 20 the UN 's World Food Programme ( WFP ) announced from Rome that emergency food aid worth US$47,000,000 would shortly be sent to the Horn of Africa .
12 The employee earning more than £5,000 or the director will be assessed on the benefit received by him on the basis of the cost to the employer rather than the price that would generally be charged to the public .
13 Such a claim would clearly be limited to the grammatical aspect of style , and even here , to say that a text has a " neutral style " is to mislead : the choice of expressing one 's sense in elemental , disconnected sentences has its stylistic value as much as any other choice ( see 7.4.2 . ) .
14 If this were not enough , it is clear that control of fiscal policy would also be transferred to the Community level as a result of the rules on budget deficits .
15 Major problems would also be caused to the high proportion of international passengers at King 's Cross — perhaps they would represent as many as three quarters of the total of such passengers .
16 In a statement on April 22 designed to convince a visiting fact-finding mission from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) [ see below ] of his democratic intent , he promised to submit his decision to a plebiscite on July 5 , and pledged that proposed constitutional reforms would also be subjected to the popular vote on Aug. 31 .
17 After yesterday 's meeting , committee chairman Councillor Charles Booth said a recommendation for removal of W.H.Spence from the list of approved contractors would now be made to the council 's general-purposes committee .
18 That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach .
19 That 's where his fragile temperament would really be put to the test .
20 The size of the payments and their timing would reportedly be left to the negotiators .
21 Since Community law is supreme , national parliaments would increasingly be consigned to the role of rubber-stamping the actions of the Council of Ministers .
22 Students , likewise , would simply be admitted to the institution ; they would not belong to a department or faculty .
23 Moving pavements must have failed under the weight they bore , otherwise one side of the crowd would surely be pulled to the rear .
24 However , it was contended for the bank that Fashions and Wholesale remained indebted to BCCI for £600,000 and BCCI then became accountable to Mr Sawar for £300,000 ; this amount would then be limited to the dividend payable in the liquidation .
25 If not , the proposal would then be put to the Council of eleven member states for a qualified majority vote .
26 It has been suggested that the club would pay Knighton £1m as compensation , which would then be added to the price-tag Midani would put on the Edwards stake .
27 ( Indeed , some Soviet planners have speculated that it might be advantageous to license Western factories to produce Soviet equipment which would then be exported to the USSR . )
28 The more unsure the plaintiff is about winning the case , the more significant the possibility of a costs claim becomes , and the calculation of costs which would ultimately be awarded to the successful party complicates the estimation of the total value of the claim .
29 Where , in complying with s 51(8) , the responsible person reduces the amount which would otherwise be awarded to the person in question , the amount of that reduction must not exceed a prescribed percentage ( for the time being 25 per cent ) and on any taxation of the costs payable by that person to his legal representative , regard must be had to the amount of the reduction ( s 51(9) ) .
30 As indicated earlier , certain types of indemnity clause are specifically regulated by the Act ( s4 of the UCTA 1977 ) ; in addition , where the effect of an indemnity is to allow the party entitled to the indemnity to escape a liability which would otherwise be incurred to the person giving the indemnity , the clause operates as an exclusion of liability and is subject to the Act ( Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland [ 1987 ] 2 All ER 620 ) .
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