Example sentences of "would be [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's see you 'd be to correct time scale . |
| 2 | At most periods of the twenty-four hours to run into the middle of Southwark Bridge would be to invite suicide in the stream of traffic pouring across it , but at that time of morning traffic was relatively light , and there were some gaps between the cars and lorries . |
| 3 | of the elderly sick , the choice would be to receive nursing home treatment under the national health service or the care packages which would enable them to stay in their own homes . |
| 4 | A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule . |
| 5 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 6 | Her only option would be to employ guile , and steal away when he was unaware of it . |
| 7 | Liberal leader and Premier-elect Ray Groom promised that his new government 's first priority would be to combat unemployment within the state . |
| 8 | Vogel stated that his priorities would be to combat unemployment and to secure more investment for Thuringia . |
| 9 | One way of accomplishing this in English law would be to merge provocation into a widened doctrine of diminished responsibility . |
| 10 | Without the Rights of Way Act the only practical solution would be to stop canoeing on that stretch and move elsewhere ( and it is not difficult to imagine where this would eventually lead ! ) |
| 11 | An alternative means of increasing the number of units in the input utterance , and thereby decreasing the number of word paths found , would be to include stress in the lexicon and input utterance . |
| 12 | There would be little need or purpose for Lib Dems to stand down , first because Lib Dem voters would be less likely to vote Labour than Labour voters would be to vote Lib Dem , and secondly because the Lib Dems are , anyway , greatly underrepresented by our system . |
| 13 | But to interpret decoding in this way would be to espouse behaviourism and to by-pass consciousness altogether . |
| 14 | I determined that the best way to find out would be to take part in a National Trust Acorn Project , week-long holidays between March and October which are open to anyone over the age of sixteen . |
| 15 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 16 | I was told that the last thing a parish priest coming in would want would be to take place before he |
| 17 | It was paralleled by a Council of Ministers whose main function would be to take action and legislate on the basis of the Commission 's proposals . |
| 18 | Desire , it is said , is one of the prime motivating powers of human existence and we believe that to curtail desire would be to leave life without meaning . |
| 19 | An arms trade committee , the function of which would be to issue export licences to enterprises , was in preparation . |
| 20 | The first step would be to confine voting to life peers . |
| 21 | An example would be to use department code as an alternate key to provide personnel listings by department from a personnel file arranged in some other order , such as alphabetic . |
| 22 | The new government , whose authority was not recognized by the central government in Baghdad , said that its first task would be to restore order in Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 23 | A main task of party renovation would be to restore confidence in the party as the defender of working class interests . |
| 24 | To do anything at all would be to risk exposure . |
| 25 | He was quick to point out , however , that one should not therefore equate the law of value with the law of labour expenditure , since to do so would be to lose sight of the specific historical form and character of value relations . |
| 26 | The purpose of an interim agreement would be to create confidence in the democratic process and to unite the law-abiding people and the two sovereign governments , to defeat ‘ political violence ’ . |
| 27 | By reducing these suffocating barriers , the aim would be to simulate frontier creativity in urban neighbourhoods . ’ |
| 28 | An ideal solution would be to install plastic mini-trunking around your office , with connector boxes located , say , every two metres . |
| 29 | He said yesterday his first priorities would be to tackle inflation and the widening trade gap . |
| 30 | One solution would be to extend regulation to the press to ensure the same kind of impartiality as on television . |