Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 2 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 3 | It would , Burlatsky suggested , be based upon a wide variety of property forms , including state property which would be developed to the higher level of public ownership of the whole people . |
| 4 | The antiprotons would follow the same path through the magnets — but in the opposite direction to the protons — and would be accelerated to the same energies . |
| 5 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 6 | In the face of continuing Hungarian objections , Meciar was reported to have agreed to consultations involving the European Communities , but only on ecological aspects ; the findings would be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 7 | Near the top of column three on page 79 the text read ‘ the net originating difference of £12,050 is taxed at 33% , and so £3,976 would be credited to the deferred tax account ( assuming a full tax charge ) ’ . |
| 8 | The maximum net dividend would be limited to the lower of : |
| 9 | The effect of this endorsement is that in the event of a claim where the sum insured is inadequate , any payment would be limited to the same proportion which the sum insured bears to the value of the property at the time of the loss . |
| 10 | Its jurisdiction would be limited to the Yugoslav conflict and to war crimes committed after 1 January 1991 . |
| 11 | If the Minister were to detail the matters , he would strengthen his position in Europe by showing the massive discrimination and harm that would be done to the Scottish agricultural industry . |
| 12 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
| 13 | Nottingham believed that once Nonconformists realised how easy it would be to conform to the established Church , few would wish to suffer the inconveniences that Dissent still brought with it , so that the integrity of the Anglican Church would be preserved , without running the risk of a perpetual Protestant schism . |
| 14 | A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account : |
| 15 | He said he would be writing to the chief executive of the county council to ask him why the decision had been taken . |
| 16 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 17 | Later in the day the taxi driver would be readmitted to the nearby hospital , this time in a state of shock and suffering from suspected rabies . |
| 18 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 19 | The Colorado majority in the December elections was expected to guarantee that no changes would be made to the new law . |
| 20 | Mr McNally said a bail application would be made to the High Court on Friday . |
| 21 | Godfrey McIvor , Central Region 's education convener , expressed disappointment at the parent ballot , and said a strong case would be made to the Scottish Secretary to keep St Mary 's in local authority control . |
| 22 | If full employment were to be achieved the economy would suck in imports and exports would be diverted to the domestic market . |
| 23 | Elaborating later at a news conference , Mr Levy said Mr Shamir had assured him in writing that he would retain his positions as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister , and one of his followers would be named to the next Likud-led government . |
| 24 | It was decided that the decree would be presented to the Slovenian Assembly on June 19 . |
| 25 | In one view , the ‘ imaginary war ’ must continue , substituting new adversaries for the cold war enemy and in this sense the Gulf war would be compared to the Korean war — as the conflict which defines the new world order . |
| 26 | On May 15 the Kurdistan Front said that it was not possible at present to issue a list allowing Turkoman inhabitants of the region to elect candidates but that " at the first available opportunity " Turkoman candidates would be elected to the National Assembly . |
| 27 | A police spokesman said that a report would be sent to the procurator-fiscal . |
| 28 | Det Supt John Ogg , head of Central Scotland CID , issued a statement yesterday saying that two people had been charged with fraud and that a report would be sent to the procurator-fiscal . |
| 29 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 30 | Wires announcing that he had some leave would be sent to the delightful telegraphic address of B.P. which was ‘ Bonzo ’ . |