Example sentences of "would be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 2 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 3 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 4 | One option for GM would be for the American company to convert its cash investment into equity through an issue of new shares after the Government 's veto on takeover expires . |
| 5 | The prediction would be for the ownership of cars to rise by 52,000 in 2 years , and so total market demand for cars in Panaragua in this period would be about 52,000 ( or slightly more , allowing for old cars being scrapped ) . |
| 6 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
| 7 | ‘ You think it would be for the best then ? ’ |
| 8 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 9 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 10 | ‘ The worst possible scenario would be for the civilian government to remain in a weak and powerless state , forcing us to maintain a military occupation in the city , ’ said Mr Roberts , who is dean of the law school at DePaul University in Chicago . |
| 11 | One answer would be for the judges ruling on applications for chapter 11 to get tough in backing creditors ' claims against the firm . |
| 12 | The only way to avoid that would be for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give the health service an open-ended budget . |
| 13 | The mistake would be for the one to cancel out the other . |
| 14 | The most valuable form of subsidy , he says , would be for the Government to take a real and permanent interest in the British film industry , to foster — simply with time and energy — a nurturing climate . |
| 15 | But these would be for the general benefit , not for the worse . |
| 16 | I insisted that the Unit must be responsible for its own training and operational planning and that , therefore , the Commander of the Unit must come directly under the C in C. I emphasised how fatal it would be for the proposed unit to be put under any existing branch or formation for administration . |
| 17 | Among the challengers , excellent boxers from the Army who were stationed nearby often took a chance to make an extra pound or two , although if caught , would be for the high jump , as this sort of contest was strictly against regulations . |
| 18 | One solution would be for the district to allocate the resources to the locality for it to secure the services required . |
| 19 | The question of reasonableness would be for the court to decide . |
| 20 | The first priority would be for the ground crews to make the bombs safe , then put out the fires and get the injured off , and everything done at top speed in case the whole lot went up . |
| 21 | In that year a senior master and professor of psychology , Eliot Hearst of Indiana University , wrote in a long review article : ‘ About the only way a current computer program could ever win a single game against a master player would be for the master , perhaps in a drunken stupor while playing 50 games simultaneously , to commit some once-in-a-year blunder … |
| 22 | In view of the financial vulnerability of the project , the researchers argue that the most efficient solution would be for the governments to re-purchase the franchise once the Tunnel has been built and run the operation at marginal cost . |
| 23 | The correct beginning to a piece on tears flowing over the lobster would be for the Strand street-dwellers to be doing something — rioting , dancing in the fountains at Trafalgar Square , anything but this calm resignation . |
| 24 | Auden once wrote that the only honest method of reviewing new poetry would be for the critic to select representative quotations and reproduce them without comment . |
| 25 | Front seats would be for the Black , |
| 26 | He added that the answer was enforcement , the most effective method of which would be for The Stock Exchange to make compliance a listing condition . |
| 27 | Tonight , if the bombers came , it would be for the seventh night in a row ; a whole week without sleep . |
| 28 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 29 | Contrary to such a view , black kids believe that , for them , being successful is more difficult than it would be for the white person of comparable proficiency . |
| 30 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |