Example sentences of "[coord] it would [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt . |
| 2 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 3 | And it would n't be me , so , that killed you , but God himself , for if he wanted you alive , sure he 'd hold back the tide for you like Moses and the Red Sea ! ’ |
| 4 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 5 | Sir , — Election time does not have to be like this , and it would n't be if politicians did n't behave like cocks , strutting their stuff ! |
| 6 | Being part of the racing establishment , he could be helpful to her , and he had seemed to understand why she needed to pursue this , and it would n't be that painful to see him again . |
| 7 | Stein , who took training yesterday , said : ‘ Stan intimated on Clubcall last week that somebody would be leaving and it would n't be a popular decision . |
| 8 | And it would n't be the greatest shock if Bowe proved me wrong by recording a knockout as fast as Lewis 's at Earl 's Court . |
| 9 | There were questions he still needed to ask and it would n't be the first time that he had taken advantage of tiredness or grief . |
| 10 | And it would n't be fair to Piper , because I know how much you still love Mum , even though you never say so . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 12 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 13 | And I left Rhos-y-Bol when I retired because I felt I they 'd have to have another nurse there , and you see the other nurse would never be able to enjoy the They would always be running to me a and it would n't be fair to another nurse . |
| 14 | He irritated the hell out of her , and it would n't be so bad if she could write him off as being thoroughly detestable . |
| 15 | It 's too hot and it would n't be good for you and you would hardly look very impressive with a great bandage twined round your ankle like the beginnings of a mummifying session . ’ |
| 16 | And it would n't be very often — we 're both too busy to take much time off . ’ |
| 17 | and er it would n't be calculated to provide the erm , those people who have er policies at with er particular confidence would it ? , and it would n't be calculated to assist in questions of er solvency and the like er which on any of you are all er considerable importance to the er European community . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had all followed the path that Czechoslovakia began , avoiding distortions and extremes , I think we would be different , the world would be different , and it would n't be so hard to implement these changes now , ’ Mr Gorbachev said . |
| 19 | And Stuart 's been and enquired and it would n't be much more for a small property . |
| 20 | The commencement of the major attack on Britain and ‘ the complete destruction of the island ’ was now seen as urgent ; Germany , it was felt , could last a third war winter , but sabotage would increase , and it would not be surprising if another ‘ November 1918 ’ was the result . |
| 21 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 22 | Bream have strong predatory instincts ( more of this later ) and it would not be safe for bream of only 2 or 3 inches to join a shoal of bigger bream . |
| 23 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 24 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 25 | Although there can be no clear-cut division between the use of language in literature and in everyday life ( and it would not be fruitful to attempt to make such a division ) , we can recognise that some of the most arresting , innovative and enriching uses of language come from the poets , novelists and dramatists who practise the craft of writing . |
| 26 | Add all these problems together and it would not be surprising if some employees refuse foreign postings . |
| 27 | Yet ambitious and confident consultants , especially those good at business development and successful at winning shootouts , are still able to branch out on their own , and it would not be healthy for the industry if this were otherwise . |
| 28 | At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’ |
| 29 | A wide variety of methods for preparing spreads has been described and it would not be possible here to give precise details of them all . |
| 30 | But it was not simply a matter of taking one extra form : as the increase progressed up the School , it would become the equivalent in time of five extra forms , and it would not be until 1971 that such an expansion could be accommodated , as the building programme came to fruition . |