Example sentences of "would [be] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first move of a Government committed to re-establishing full employment comprehensively would be to initiate a rolling programme of moving Civil Service jobs from areas of high employment , mainly in the South , to those of high unemployment , predominantly in the North . |
| 2 | One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds . |
| 3 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 4 | One possible remedy would be to employ a time-varying parameter technique in estimation as in Browne and McNellis ( 1990 ) . |
| 5 | This would be to substitute a judicial view as to , for example , the most appropriate way in which to allocate aid , or to disburse licences , for that of the public body . |
| 6 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 7 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 8 | When these targets had been achieved , with increased skill and investment levels showing up in higher productivity , the proposal would be to implement a higher national minimum wage for all workers , aiming for 60 per cent of average earnings over the following five years . |
| 9 | One possibility would be to evolve a qualified defence of killing under extreme emotional disturbance , following the lead of the Model Penal Code . |
| 10 | For example a useful practical derived test of the properties of leather in shoes would be to flex a real shoe in a test machine to determine the relation between loads and displacements relevant to the wearer . |
| 11 | This suggests that a good test would be to take a potent scientific innovation and compare its reception in Protestant and Catholic communities . |
| 12 | According to the statement the sole task of the new People 's Assembly would be to draft a new constitution to be placed before the people for approval . |
| 13 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 14 | Another way of producing a picture that is botanically correct would be to choose a larger aperture ( rectangular is probably the easiest shape to work with ) and to show several pieces of the same plant . |
| 15 | It is not , of course , possible to apply full text retrieval to such a database and an effective option would be to use a relational database management system with keyword-based searching . |
| 16 | Once established , the Committee 's major task would be to devise a unified pattern of awards at the craft level , in accordance with the spirit of the Hudson proposals . |
| 17 | We knew that the one way to get the world 's two greatest detectives to come here would be to stage a mysterious disappearance . |
| 18 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 19 | To think that the Archives are standing idle by , however , would be to give a false impression . |
| 20 | At the second of these meetings Attlee stressed that the strategic arguments about the Middle East were not valid because no country would be willing to grant bases for military action , and all Britain would achieve would be to pose a needless and pointless threat to the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | ‘ If resources were available the first priority would be to appoint a full-time personnel/training officer ’ . |
| 22 | Their only chance of such would be to marry a wealthy man , because as source A also describes , before 1919 no woman was allowed a complete education , and therefore they never achieved positions in highly paid jobs , such as lawyers . |
| 23 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 24 | From the point of view of the ‘ host ’ or ‘ hostess ’ the most immediate benefit of showing art would be to enhance a pleasant ambience , but the more ambitious would also be seeking to attract a certain clientele by offering more than the comfort of food . |
| 25 | The best it could do would be to permit a small degree of enclave development , which only reproduced First World-Third World exploitation within the Third World . |
| 26 | The usual advice would be to suggest a private meeting between the chairman , the head teacher and the parent who raised the issue . |
| 27 | The way I would start forming a band would be to get a bass player and drummer first ; get a core of people who are on my wavelength , especially on the bass , and a drummer who 's got a really good right hand , almost like a jazz player , who can play light and not just hard . |
| 28 | The quickest way to improve rural wages would be to locate a small engineering factory in every village — a utopian thought , no doubt . |
| 29 | A second approach would be to identify a dependent population and then use this to identify their carers . |
| 30 | The ghost of the Duke of Windsor haunted the minds of the family , patently aware that the older he became the more difficult it would be to find a virginal , Protestant aristocrat to be his bride . |