Example sentences of "[conj] it would [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services .
2 … it is not difficult to imagine a case where it would be essential for employers embarking for example on a new technical process to invite existing employees to agree to some reasonable restriction on their use of the knowledge they acquire of the new technique ; and where it would be essential for the employer to terminate , by due notice , the services of an employee who was unwilling to accept such a restriction .
3 Although Nourse LJ does not categorically state what the law is in this situation , his decision indicates and points towards the view that the defendants may be able to escape the restrictions of the sale agreement where it would be inequitable to allow the plaintiff to rely on the strict wording .
4 The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart .
5 However , a full investigation would be appropriate where the value of the target arises out of its properties or where they are important to the business ; where it would be time-consuming and difficult to find new premises ; and where damages for breach of warranty would be inadequate compensation .
6 He had communicated his recommendation to Congress , where it would be subject to approval by both chambers .
7 Clearly , this is another aspect of the European playing field where it would be desirable for some levelling to take place …
8 But outside her room , Mildred was just a common frog who had strayed into the school , where it would be unlikely to occur to anyone ( except the wicked person who had done the deed ) that it might be a second-year witch under an enchantment .
9 But in my judgment , at all events where the belief is that A is going to be given a right in the future , it is properly to be regarded as giving rise to a species of constructive trust , which is the concept employed by a court of equity to prevent a person from relying on his legal rights where it would be unconscionable for him to do so …
10 Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) .
11 This power may be invoked where it would be distressing for the child to sit through certain testimony .
12 Clearly there may be some negotiations where it would be unwise to assume that an obligation of confidence will arise .
13 One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought .
14 ‘ I 'm thankful it was n't finished or it would be impossible to maintain with the small congregations we have . ’
15 An assessor would be needed to be brought into the workplace at a cost , or it would be necessary to go to an assessor .
16 The position is : B , if he knows , or it would be obvious to a reasonable man , that the process was patented , has infringed the patent for the process .
17 C has infringed the patent for the process if he knows , or it would be obvious to a reasonable man , that the equipment he supplied was suitable for putting the process into effect and the equipment was intended to do so .
18 A really deep border makes a stunning finish to a little summer dress , a spotless white collar for a dark dress , or you could use the idea for a richly decorated yoke , the edge of a stole or shawl , or it would be lovely all round a simple triangle of plain knitting .
19 The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt .
20 It would be surprising to find a great deal of this type of activity in any organization , although it would be sad to see none .
21 Artefacts found on both sides of the North Sea provide an important reference point , although it would be easy to question the basis of the chronology of such objects in Scandinavia and North Germany .
22 Suppose I say : ( 24 ) Nigel has fourteen children I shall implicate that Nigel has only fourteen children , although it would be compatible with the truth of ( 24 ) that Nigel in fact has twenty children .
23 Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved .
24 It 's too hot and humid during the summer , and all the labs close down after May , although it would be nice to have two apartments , one here and one there in the winter .
25 ‘ Realistically , only Blackburn Rovers could afford to buy him and even then we would n't let him go … although it would be nice if they tried to tempt me , ’ he quipped .
26 Lastly , although it would be nice to feel that everybody charts the forward direction absolutely correctly , the reality of life is that this is an almost impossible ambition .
27 Although it would be nice to go over to Bradford .
28 Although it would be nice to see someone apart from Strach get annoyed on the pitch every now and then .
29 Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ?
30 Standard periods would be prescribed for different types of business , although it would be possible to apply for a special timetable at an early stage and for detailed variations of the timetable .
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