Example sentences of "would have [been] easier " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friend lived at the end of the Piccadilly Line so Dennis had insisted on escorting Gillian to Covent Garden when Leicester Square would have been easier for her . |
| 2 | If I had known someone who looked similar to me , we could have walked down the street together , wearing similar clothes or something ; we 'd be holding each other 's hands in a sense , it would have been easier . |
| 3 | It would have been easier , ten years ago , before brothels were outlawed . |
| 4 | It would have been easier if I could have discussed it with Karen . |
| 5 | With family support of the kind practised here in Bristol , the situation would have been easier for me to accept . |
| 6 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 7 | You may remember that Cliff wore a thumb pick and two National finger picks , hence the octaves section in bars 9 and 10 would have been easier for him to pick cleanly than if he 'd used a flat pick and no fingerstyle . |
| 8 | The news of my pregnancy would shatter him ( convincing him of an immaculate conception would have been easier . ) |
| 9 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 10 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 11 | In truth , although a large amount of dollars had been consumed , it would have been easier and cheaper task to have started from scratch . |
| 12 | John Chadwick ( 1976 , p. 157 ) agrees that transactions would have been easier if prices were agreed in terms of a base-commodity — whether gold or silver or something else — but there seems to be no evidence of this in the archive tablets . |
| 13 | Rowbotham ( 1973 ) feels that if she had read Reich earlier , life would have been easier . |
| 14 | Had he been less brilliant or sure of himself , he would have been easier to dismiss , but Cooper selected his victims with care , knowing precisely where their weaknesses were , and always aimed to draw blood , each review increasing his enemies within the international art establishment ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 17 , April 1992 , p. 2 for his dealings with John Rothenstein ) . |
| 15 | Had the complainant been a woman it would have been easier to spot . |
| 16 | It would have been easier if he had n't found her attractive . |
| 17 | Tim said : ‘ It would have been easier if I had stolen the family silver , would n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | It would have been easier to delete the file form the outside , but that would have mindwiped Daine , Tunney and herself . |
| 19 | If only Morpurgo had been a less thoroughbred specimen the contrast with what had subsequently overtaken him would have been easier to accept . |
| 20 | His wife 's face was rigidly set , not with anger , which would have been easier to manage , but with hurt , which was almost impossible . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 22 | In the end it would have been easier to have gone out and bought a ’ Persuader ’ ( remember them ? ) as used by the man himself , streets ahead of any other shop-bought ledger rod of the day . |
| 23 | If he had not forced himself to smile back it would have been easier . |
| 24 | That would have been easier . |
| 25 | Maybe it would have been easier if Luke had shouted and let loose the anger Fran could sense seething inside him , but he did n't . |
| 26 | I should have thought it would have been easier than that to put a new one in . |
| 27 | We were gon na go this we , coming weekend actually erm an , because that would have been easier to put everybo , move everybody this week but are coming , is coming next weekend ! |
| 28 | So let's have a little look at what cos squared X means erm that cos squared three X , cam I have given you X times cos squared three X to integrate do you think that would have been easier or harder ? |
| 29 | Well it would have been easier but I would have , I would n't find |