Example sentences of "would be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it would be damaging for the economies of the community if we were unable to reach agreement . ’ |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that any proposal to raise the higher rate of income tax , as advocated by the Opposition , would be damaging for morale and prosperity , because such a move would not only destroy the will to work but drive some of our best brains out of the country ? |
| 3 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 4 | The idea was that a wide range of activities would be developed for groups of young people that would allow them to gain a sense of personal involvement and achievement . |
| 5 | The new plans being drawn up by the Countryside Commission and the Forestry Commission for sites near urban areas , mean that half of each site would be planted with mixed forest and the other half would be developed for recreation and farming purposes . |
| 6 | Spun wool and woven cloth would be displayed for their inspection . |
| 7 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |
| 8 | Under the proposals from Brussels the M4 would be upgraded for maximum heavy goods use , extending it all the way along the Pembrokeshire Coast to Fishguard . |
| 9 | Noorda suggested that while it had yet to be decided , these companies ' shares in Unix Labs would be exchanged for Novell shares . |
| 10 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 11 | In early December there was some speculation that Shaikh Obeid would be exchanged for Israeli navigator Ron Arad , the only missing Israeli serviceman believed to be alive . |
| 12 | He prayed that she would be forgiven for being herself and following her nature . |
| 13 | Despite the breeding of dogs into such a variety of shapes and sizes that an alien visitor to our planet would be forgiven for thinking them all to be different species , yet these miscellaneous varieties all exhibit the same essential behavioural tendencies as their wolf ancestors . |
| 14 | 6 Later , in a more morbid vein , he confessed : " I suspected all along that there was little possibility that I would be forgiven for making known publicly that Stalin disgusted me , and that I could not stomach the Nazi-Soviet pact and the events in Finland . |
| 15 | Silently praying she would be forgiven for the lie , she gave a small shrug . |
| 16 | ‘ A saint would be forgiven for losing his cool around you . ’ |
| 17 | Well so many of these songs have been done by so many people that you would be forgiven for thinking that , that . |
| 18 | I mean — high , … if … you did n't know who was singin' , you would n't be lookin' for him you would be lookin' for her . ’ |
| 19 | Well , let brother Spencer enjoy his ill-gotten gains while he may , the day was coming shortly when his fraud would be exposed for all to see . |
| 20 | Within this ideal model ( Fig 12.3 ) , the actual costs of providing education at the appropriate level would be calculated for both academic and non-academic resources ( eg staff , equipment , facilities , services , etc ) . |
| 21 | When I 'd had confirmation that permission would be granted for one dwelling , no size specified , I toured round the estate agents , seeking a prospective purchaser . ’ |
| 22 | Cleaning staff would be employed for that site only , and usually on a full time basis , working to extremely rigorous standards . |
| 23 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 24 | He was allowed bail , but after consulting his lawyers , was convinced that it was highly probable that he would be convicted for sedition and sent to Botany Bay . |
| 25 | To the outsider they would be mistaken for smartly uniformed security guards rather than the trained storm-troopers they were . |
| 26 | For millennia it was accepted that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe , despite all the contrary evidence , on the grounds that no other site would be fitting for the world on which the ‘ chosen ’ ( whatever their religion ) dwelt . |
| 27 | Such a long passage without any breathing spaces would be trying for a single player , who would have to fit in an intake of breath where the phrasing breaks . |
| 28 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 29 | In November 1989 it was announced that the Falkland Islands Company ( now owned by Anglo United , a UK-based mining and fuel distribution group which had taken over Coalite , the Falkland Islands Company 's existing owner , in August 1989 ) would be appointing a chief executive who would be based for the first time on the islands themselves . |
| 30 | It would n't matter now what she , Dinah , did ; Robert Asshe would be hoping for an heir from the new wife , the young girl who could n't act . |