Example sentences of "[verb] but it would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Colleges are quite extensively engaged in activities other than teacher education , their viability would be disturbed but it would not be destroyed . |
| 2 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 3 | She did n't mind but it would put more pressure on her schedule . |
| 4 | The upper school were remaining but it would be at least another week before he 'd have to return . |
| 5 | I will tell you about one or two just to get you going but it would be unsporting to warn you about everything . |
| 6 | Dot tried to smile but it would n't come . |
| 7 | Transit time was not measured but it would be expected to be shorter . |
| 8 | I think it 'd , it 'd fret but it would n't have hurt one of them to take it on . |
| 9 | If Peel had not got into it I think it would have still been well received but it would have taken longer , ’ says Gedge . |
| 10 | I know but it 'd be different here . |
| 11 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 12 | It might be short on intrigue and backstabbing but it would move at a cracking pace . |
| 13 | The joints have gone and this wanted doing but it would of been extortionate she said , you know , to get it done |
| 14 | Er we could refuse to buy their electricity off them I suppose but it would n't be have much affect . |
| 15 | A consultant paediatrician said the bruising would have caused a degree of distress when inflicted but it would have been temporary . |
| 16 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 17 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 18 | The boat might be rocked but it would not ship water . |
| 19 | Dancing had been suggested but it would have bust the spell , and moves by Mallachy and Rory to get them off alone were put down with spiteful glee , accepted with good humour . |