Example sentences of "would be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this instance the Court felt that the immediate consequence of rejecting the claim would be to force the inhabitants to appeal to the United Nations Security Council , which would be an excessive burden to place upon them compared with local judicial fora . |
| 2 | Many people there were expecting an Israeli attack on Jordan , the aims of which would be to force the Palestinians of the Occupied lands to remain in Jordan , and , in accordance with Israel 's notorious ‘ transfer plan ’ , accommodate the expected arrival in Israel of millions of immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And then they would be feeding the straw , making these straw ropes . |
| 5 | Britain , he said , needed to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep-sea mining regime and that it would be exploring the prospects for these . |
| 6 | They would be repairing the skylight , I guessed correctly , and were probably a firm Nassim had shares in so he could fiddle the invoices for the insurance company . |
| 7 | After all , the greatest disaster would be to delay the decision until we were too inert to do anything about it . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Calls in America and Britain for further cuts in interest rates underline how easy it would be to repeat the mistake . |
| 10 | It was also rumoured that the carrier would be delivering the aircraft into the Mediterranean Sea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The most sensible thing would be to sell the house , to this Matthew Preston or anyone else who wants it . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The better arrangement would be to renegotiate the restraints to protect the goodwill which it is hoped will accrue to the new firms in their first few years of business after the demerger . |
| 15 | If each family was to have the services of a senior and a junior counsel , the costs would be enormous , and at that stage no one knew what the position would be regarding the question of Legal Aid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But that would be to miss the point . |
| 20 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 21 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 22 | Not only that ; we would be breaking the law if we ‘ interfered ’ with him in any way ; the sand lizard is considered rare enough to have been designated a ‘ protected species ’ ( Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | But I can not take it out of store because I would be breaking the law effectively if I did . |
| 24 | It would be breaking the habit of a lifetime . |
| 25 | Under the terms of the agreement ( reached in principle in May — see pp. 38221-22 ) , the 17,000 Inuit in the region ( who constituted some 80 per cent of the area 's total population ) would be granted the right to hunt , fish and trap within Nunavut . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There are currently 27 county teams in England so the logical thing to do would be to divide the counties into three divisions of nine . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |