Example sentences of "it would [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd probably need drilling |
| 2 | Yeah , well it 'd just have to go in the hall , but , no , this will be better , carrycot and that , ridiculous prices though |
| 3 | you could have a filling that mail or , or , or something , and , and it , it 'd just get vandalized around here wo n't it ? |
| 4 | We thought what that meant , er it 'd certainly turn turn against this speculative proposal . |
| 5 | If the cradle had been lowered , it would eventually have turned over , throwing out rigger Andy Bowman , who was controlling the stunt from inside it . |
| 6 | I supposed , since to him Neil was only ‘ John Parsons ’ , it did not matter either way , and if Ewen saw the little pile of debris — tins and used paper plates and my thermos — that I had left outside the tent , it would surely go to persuade him that Neil was safely ensconced on the island . |
| 7 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 8 | If it had been the house and the body it would surely have referred not to digging a woodland grave but to digging in an animal cemetery . |
| 9 | Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again . |
| 10 | Not only is it impractical , and possibly unethical , to restrict psychobiological studies to work on humans and great apes but it would also mean throwing out most of the work done to date , since most of that has involved the use of non-primates like cats , hamsters , and especially rats . |
| 11 | It would also mean giving the signal for the relationship to develop . |
| 12 | Not only would it be monotonous , it would also fail to provide the range of nutrients that the body requires for health . |
| 13 | This would certainly increase the level of the lighting but it would also tend to change the character of the setting , and the presence of floodlights works against any wish to keep the atmosphere of an occasion informal . |
| 14 | It would also serve to encourage the aspirations of Yugoslavia , which let the republic go its own way in late 1991 . |
| 15 | But it would also appear to know its own place in history in a way which an exercise of the furious imagination in art can sometimes seem to prevent . |
| 16 | The difference yields a political meaning , in other words , and it would also appear to relate to the old theory of the difference between an author who tells and an author who shows , and who employs a medley of voices in order to do so . |
| 17 | It would also seem to discriminate against women and ethnic minorities ( Cohen , 1982a ) . |
| 18 | It would also need to embrace countries like Nigeria , which are still unrealistically classed as middle-income and therefore not eligible for Paris-club relief . |
| 19 | It would also need to pay attention to regional variations , since it is true , even in these days of mass mobility and the mass media , that to travel to a place remote from a major centre of population is to move back in time and rediscover the traditions and practices of an earlier period . |
| 20 | It would also need to try to provide wider privileges than are at present open to Members of the University Convocation . |
| 21 | It would also begin to ensure individuals a regular , if initially small income that is independent of both work and welfare , which they can spend or save as they please . |
| 22 | It would also help to replace the jack socket with the stereo type and use the additional contact as an extra earth terminal . |
| 23 | It would also help to accelerate the depoliticisation of our army and the promotion of officers on the basis of their professional capabilities . |
| 24 | It would also help convince them that politicians have decided not on the basis of the best orchestrated campaign but by seeking to occupy the high moral ground , wherever it might be found . |
| 25 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 26 | It would also have ensured that people are dealt with in a consistent way and that the interests of the public were always taken into account when these important decisions are made . |
| 27 | Not only would this have amounted to abandonment of a well-established principle ( not a thing welcome to lawyers ) , but it would also have threatened the stability of contracts of sale . |
| 28 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 29 | If it acknowledged his existence , it would also have to acknowledge its own existence , thereby inviting precisely the attention it had to avoid . |
| 30 | It would also have provoked a military crisis in that once in the Crimea , the Emperor must become virtually Commander-in-Chief of all the forces , including the British . |