Example sentences of "it would be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He vowed it would be empowered to ‘ return Scottish water to the ownership and control of local authorities ’ . |
| 2 | It would be limited to the function it is most useful for in the language classroom : intensive listening . |
| 3 | If we do n't grant a , what 's going there now , it could well be that by default , the building will revert to the county council , and it would be lost to the people of Ottery . |
| 4 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 5 | In the accompanying letter , Beatrix said it would be sent to me by a friend in the event of her death . |
| 6 | If agreement could not be reached with a reporter on disputed material , it would be sent to a joint information bureau in Dhahran , and , if still unresolved , to the US Assistant Secretary of Defence responsible for public affairs . |
| 7 | The budget would still be a tight one , but it would be geared to maintaining business investment as we approach the post-1992 European single market , and limiting the effects of the recession on business . |
| 8 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 9 | The Alliance wanted television yet feared that it would be damaging to them , as Alliance MPs are allowed such a small share of parliamentary time . |
| 10 | Outside the immaculately maintained and smartly guarded naval enclaves , where minds were drilled as thoroughly as bodies in uniformity and obedience , the privilege of royal society was granted on condition that it would be denied to all outsiders . |
| 11 | It was planned to fly food to the north-east Kenyan town of Wajir , from where it would be trucked to Somali refugees living in UN camps along the Kenyan border or sent by air into Somalia . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If not enough for all , it would be given to the children first . |
| 14 | But fears that it would be given to poorly educated women or ethnic minorities , without their informed consent , led the Health Minister , Kenneth Clarke , to refuse the drug a full licence last year . |
| 15 | ( And if the 1.5–2 million surplus workers now in jobs were added , it would be seen to be catastrophic . ) |
| 16 | At the end of the meeting the principal adviser explained what would happen to the report next : that it would be presented to governors and to the appraisal subcommittee , and that any teacher could attend these meetings . |
| 17 | Hostilities in Europe ended on May 8 , and soon after the Squadron was informed that it would be going to the Far East as part of the ‘ Tiger Force ’ , and on June 16 Sugar went with the rest of the unit to Metheringham to prepare for the move . |
| 18 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 19 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 20 | Thus , it was argued , whatever effect upon the market the authorities might have , it would be confined to a very narrow spectrum of assets and interest rates . |
| 21 | Before a questioning audience Mr Murray began by explaining the main features of the new corporate identity and outlined the way it would be introduced to its public . |
| 22 | It would be listened to , judged , and perhaps dismissed , like any other piece of information from outside ; it would never attain the privilege of being liberated from the constraint of logical thought . |
| 23 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 24 | If this book were concerned only with the unsolved problem of biology , 90 per cent of it would be devoted to two topics : behaviour and development . |
| 25 | Most of it would be devoted to Crabb 's bravery and service to his country during the war , the fact that he was an underwater expert and that he was always willing to test the latest equipment , some of which work was inevitably hazardous . |
| 26 | The estate had been willed to another prisoner , a distant cousin , on the clear understanding that should it ever be returned to Jewish hands , the monies and profits taken from it would be devoted to the creation of a Zionist state . |
| 27 | If a local authority misused the billions of pounds that the Government have misused for that purpose , it would be taken to the district auditors . |
| 28 | Contrary to declarations that there was no government policy for sterling and that it would be left to the markets to decide , by late 1981 the government intervened to reverse a fall in the exchange rate , and raised base rate to 16 per cent . |
| 29 | For example for ‘ ha ? ’ , if had , hag , ham , has , hat , haw and hay were found to be candidates , it would be left to further stages of analysis of the system to determine which of these is more likely to be the intended word , although they can be suggested in order of their frequency of use calculated from a corpus of English text . |
| 30 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |