Example sentences of "and [conj] it would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … 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 . |
| 2 | These companies realized at an early stage that there is no point in trying to compete with the majors in releasing daytime radio or ‘ Top of the Pops ’ material , and that it would be better to find acts who have proved popular on the live circuit but who are considered too left field for the majors . |
| 3 | From Steve and Paul 's point of view , I reckon they thought he was a real card and that it would be a big laugh having him around . |
| 4 | Contrary to declarations that there was no government policy for sterling and that it would be left to the markets to decide , by late 1981 the government intervened to reverse a fall in the exchange rate , and raised base rate to 16 per cent . |
| 5 | The FO noted that he had provided ‘ valuable assistance ’ to the allied cause as Prime Minister after Italy 's surrender in 1943 , and that it would be ‘ inopportune ’ to hand him over to the Ethiopians . |
| 6 | His name served as a seal of approval that a deal would go ahead and that it would be profitable . |
| 7 | Many , probably the great majority of the population , were convinced by 1939 if not before that the Jews had been a harmful influence in German society , and that it would be better if those still remaining left ( or were forced to leave ) as soon as possible . |
| 8 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 9 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 10 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 11 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 12 | At present , many residential homes for adults run by local authorities have over 25 residents , whereas it is felt that no residential homes should have more than twenty-five places and that it would be much better if the average size was much lower . |
| 13 | Britain , he said , needed to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep-sea mining regime and that it would be exploring the prospects for these . |
| 14 | They pointed out that the school was important to the community and that it would be missed . |
| 15 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 16 | It was felt that such speed limits were not practical over the wide area that was to be covered by the experiment , and that it would be better to scrap such treatment of individual streets and instead integrate such areas into a widespread system of 30 km/h streets . |
| 17 | ‘ John Major feels that Norman has fought up the rough side of the mountain and that it would be unfair to get rid of him now . ’ |
| 18 | What actually happened is that my Group said simply that our proposals for 11 to 16 year olds were built on our work for the primary stages , and that it would be absurd for us to bring out our second Report if its proposals were out of tune with the earlier attainment targets . |
| 19 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 20 | After three such days the night nurse told us she thought that Caroline and I were exciting him and that it would be better if we went home and merely visited during the day . |
| 21 | The Blood Banner Society , the shadowy Japanese ultra-nationalist group , have issued a declaration to the effect that the Mishima , coincidentally named after one of the heroes of the movement , was lost through an unprovoked sneak attack , and that it would be avenged . |
| 22 | Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs . |
| 23 | One collector even suggested to Mr Laurentius that no one was really waiting for these new techniques and that it would be better for everyone if he stopped . |
| 24 | Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts . |
| 25 | You have almost certainly known for quite some while that one cycle is coming to a close and that it would be foolish even to attempt to defy the winds of change . |
| 26 | Here is the offensive chorus of the song that started the fight : The magistrate listened to all this with a benevolent interest , although he confessed that it sounded like six-of-one and half-a-dozen-of-the-other , and that it would be unwise to take any action without clarifying evidence . |
| 27 | The British Foreign Office held that the prestige of the UN must be preserved and that it would be foolish for the United States to treat the UN as a rubber stamp for decisions already taken in Washington . |
| 28 | It was agreed that it would be impossible to draft the title of the Bill in such a way as to exclude an amendment to abolish capital punishment , and that it would be unconvincing to argue that the inclusion in the Bill of a provision for the abolition of capital punishment would be inappropriate . |
| 29 | It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence . |
| 30 | On 7 August the Cabinet accepted Ede 's conclusions that an amendment providing for the abolition of capital punishment could not be ruled out of order on the grounds that it did not come within the scope of the Bill , and that it would be impossible to grade murders into those for which capital punishment would be retained and those for which it would be abolished . |