Example sentences of "would be [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were only two men , the best tactic would be to flatten the leader with a surprise attack , before turning on his demoralized friend , assuming that you had the power and speed to do that . |
| 2 | After all , the greatest disaster would be to delay the decision until we were too inert to do anything about it . |
| 3 | The knock-on effect of this would be to delay the start of Doctor Who on Television , something considered very unwise in the light of problems encountered on ‘ The Daleks ’ . |
| 4 | Calls in America and Britain for further cuts in interest rates underline how easy it would be to repeat the mistake . |
| 5 | That is only reasonable given that , in the new age of investor protection , the aim of a new system would be to improve the quality of information which was made available to shareholders . |
| 6 | The most sensible thing would be to sell the house , to this Matthew Preston or anyone else who wants it . " |
| 7 | The purpose of this body would be to bridge the gap between the professions and the community to bring about a coordinated , coherent response to the issue . |
| 8 | Yet this would be to miss the essence of the point Marx seeks to make : for bad treatment by employers of employees is open to correction by moral conviction whether that of the employers themselves acting in pursuance of enlightened self-interest , or that of legislatures acting to prevent abuses ; and the simple understanding would , by introducing the possibility of an extrinsic and corrective moral factor , threaten the inevitability of the class war . |
| 9 | To say that the recipe is naive would be to miss the point , but with the predominance of so much dance , drama is often lacking . |
| 10 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 11 | But that would be to miss the point . |
| 12 | The aim here would be to enable the patient to recognize the common precipitants of the feelings which precede cutting and then to take appropriate action to prevent these feelings mounting up to the state of extreme tension which is associated with cutting . |
| 13 | Reviving the economy and allowing local elections was all very well for west Germans , but to create a government only in the western zones would be to divide the nation : German people might well be appalled by this and turn against their new leaders . |
| 14 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 15 | This does not of course mean that management control has detrimental effects in all companies , since that would be to ignore the significance of management values , and in any case the extent to which managers benefit from pursuing non-profit goals is unclear . |
| 16 | ‘ To write merely about his tennis would be to ignore the force of Gonzales ’ intimidating personality ’ , writes Bellamy . |
| 17 | That would be to ignore the role of the influential Communist Party and of grass-roots pressure within the movements . |
| 18 | One possible means of reconciling the new right and Thatcherism to the Conservative tradition would be to abandon the emphasis on ‘ authority ’ and emphasize the duality of Conservative thought in terms of the ‘ libertarian'/ ’ paternalist' divide . |
| 19 | And to argue , as some theorists have done , that the class has dissolved or been integrated into the bourgeoisie would be to abandon the hope of a proletarian revolution heralding the end of capitalism . |
| 20 | One approach would be to abandon the construction and use of league tables altogether . |
| 21 | He could also have taken into account , if he was aware of it , that the effect of requiring an undertaking in damages from the council would be to cause the collapse of the law enforcement process in this area of law ; and further that the enforcement of the law was not merely desirable as such in the public interest , but that small retailers could well suffer if large retailers such as Wickes were able to continue to trade with impunity during a significant period in contravention of what might well prove to be a perfectly valid law . |
| 22 | An easier and much cheaper alternative would be to let the earth 's upper atmosphere serve as a detector . |
| 23 | He knows we have always been of the view that given the limited resources that the best cost effective use of those resources would be to merge the administration . |
| 24 | Cos the instinct would be to stop the car from moving . |
| 25 | " It would be to un-create the Creation . " |
| 26 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 27 | A useful research exercise would be to compare the use of census and PAC data in deriving quantitative risk assessments and this is an interesting research problem . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it is utter nonsense in any event to turn the mere similarity of habitation into a similarity of personality , for that would be to argue the proposition that if two people occupy the same room they thereby become exactly like each other in their minds and in their actions . |
| 29 | To demur would be to banish the woman still deeper into the wastes of her own loneliness . |
| 30 | The only way in which er you could get how shall I put it , another view on the issue , would be to continue the debate here on whether or not the outer northern fulfils the functions and the needs which it pr claims to do compared with the inner routes between Knaresborough and Harrogate . |