Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious difficulty of having the same method of election for both Houses is that it would tend to produce a mirror image and devalue the House of Lords as a check . |
| 2 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
| 3 | It is often difficult to match a covered lampshade to your own furnishing fabrics , in which case it would pay to buy a frame , then cover it yourself . |
| 4 | I do n't think she has the faintest idea what it would mean to marry a chap without private means , and if she did , I 'm afraid she 'd change her mind . ’ |
| 5 | it would justify having a fire like that |
| 6 | In one case , the court indicated that it would intervene to prevent a breach by the visitor of the rules of natural justice : see Bently v. Bishop of Ely ( 1729 ) 1 Barn.K.B. 192 . |
| 7 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 8 | If our Lord had been resurrected only as a spirit it would have signified a victory over the spiritual world but the fact that it was a physical resurrection shows his sovereignty over history and the created world . |
| 9 | ‘ Quite right , sugar-plum , ’ Mr Wormwood said , casting a look of such simpering sloppiness at his wife it would have made a cat sick . |
| 10 | Not , in truth , that she expected any , important or otherwise , but it would have made a difference to the day . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have made a difference in the disposition of that part of the estate which had n't been given away . |
| 12 | More than that , it would have constituted a breach of rules of respect for elders , a denial of social hierarchy inculcated throughout infancy , boyhood , schooldays . |
| 13 | He badly wanted to believe he had beaten FAKINTIL — it would have eased a move into their crony politics for him . |
| 14 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 15 | If the diagram were complete , it would have to include a call for further , perhaps broader , correlations , logically linked into a bundle but not different in kind . |
| 16 | It would have saved a lot of unnecessary antagonism . ’ |
| 17 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 18 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
| 19 | In its original form , it would have involved a cost to the British taxpayer , to the Government and to employers of up to £500 million . |
| 20 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 21 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 22 | It would have assumed a place similar to that of the forerunners of the churches and chapels of historic times . |
| 23 | ‘ All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Had the airplane crashed into the mountain , it would have cut a swath through the trees . |
| 25 | We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance . |
| 26 | His excellency crossed the floor of room B. It was n't a particularly interesting room and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all , had the Anti-Rex not chosen to enter it . |
| 27 | It was n't a particularly interesting café and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all had … do you ever get that strange feeling of déjà vu ? |
| 28 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 29 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 30 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |