Example sentences of "would be [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Tapie was a fish he 'd be stuffed to the gills this issue ! |
| 2 | I 'd be owing to the stage Mike ! |
| 3 | But after a moment 's silence he said , as if casually , ‘ She 's a scamper , that one ; into every hole and corner , if I remember rightly , so she 's likely stayed out late and is frightened to go home — if old man Walton had a load on she 'd be introduced to the buckle end of his belt . |
| 4 | She still had n't admitted to the other woman that she was n't at all sure she 'd be returning to the music business . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | One thousand police would be posted to the suburbs that summer and 12 more " houses of justice " would be built as centres for dispute settlement and advisory services . |
| 7 | Now , the question for parishes would th they would n't be abolished , the , the question is , how much additional powers and responsibilities would be devolved to the parishes , and that 's the question . |
| 8 | Control of most branches of the economy , except for fuel , energy , metallurgy and communications , would be devolved to the republics . |
| 9 | The Whitsun visitors would follow the Easter ones ; in no time at all the hotels would be jammed to the doors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 12 | It said that a strike would be damaging to the company and to its staff . |
| 13 | ACAS refused to recommend recognition partly because to do so would arouse strong opposition from the other unions with a risk of industrial action which would be damaging to the industry . |
| 14 | As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me , uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector . |
| 15 | Instead , there was an announcement , accompanied by a great hoo-hah , that the authority and its 800 jobs would be moving to the bay . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The portfolios which gave rise to this problem were those under which , besides guaranteed income payments , there was a guarantee that a stated sum would be repaid to the investor at the future maturity date of his chosen stock . ’ |
| 19 | The Labour Party would be relegated to the position of a group , and would probably sit below the gangway on the Liberal side of the House . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The UK Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker , announced on Sept. 17 that the case of Judith Ward , sentenced to life imprisonment at Wakefield Crown Court in 1974 for the IRA bombing of a coach carrying soldiers and their families on the M62 motorway in Yorkshire [ see pp. 26873-74 ] , would be referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 24 | Equivalent sums would be credited to the enterprises ' bank accounts , subject to verification that the money had been earned legally . |
| 25 | All these men ( and presumably others with cancers detected at subsequent screening rounds ) would be exposed to the risks of radical prostatectomy , which may cause impotency in up to 42% and urethrovesical stricture in 7% . |
| 26 | Mr Paleokrassas said he could not say how much money would be granted to the industry , but added it was likely to be ‘ quite substantial ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ But the damage would be limited to the plane . |
| 28 | However , even here there are some differences : the German position , officially supported by Bonn , is that work should be based on the international agreements signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin , under which the issue would be limited to the return of treasures located on their territory . |
| 29 | It would be limited to the function it is most useful for in the language classroom : intensive listening . |
| 30 | 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 . |