Example sentences of "it would [verb] be [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Had the disengagement happened in any other way , it would have been worth sending all his army , Normans included , crashing through the trees to clean them out while the fighting-power was still in them and Siward 's troops were disorganised by the sudden descent of the cavalry .
2 It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’
3 It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly .
4 She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse .
5 For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe .
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