Example sentences of "this would [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether even this would suffice is now doubtful ( see 1983 Act , s.5(1) ) . |
| 2 | Surely , if Handel 's harpsichord truly was given to George III , this would have been exactly the place to find it . |
| 3 | According to Walter Easey , the ALA police policy advisor , ‘ under Sir Kenneth Newman , this would have been quite impossible . |
| 4 | From Stirling 's point of view this would have been quite satisfactory , but he smelt danger in the following proposals . |
| 5 | This would have been quite a popular route . |
| 6 | He was not seduced , although his excuse for this would have been much better than most , by the politically widespread enthusiasm for the alternative of his old friend Halifax . |
| 7 | Equally , no purpose would have been served by asking him to approach total strangers in the street , as the mere thought of this would have been so terrifying to the young man that he would probably have given up there and then . |
| 8 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 9 | This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose . |
| 10 | This would have been more difficult with the single pans of watercolour . |
| 11 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 12 | Although he gives Rosa and Claude as his mentors , he seldom followed their rigid classical composition , indeed in his mountainous terrain this would have been very difficult . |
| 13 | This would have been very difficult , because the site is on a low hill and some means would have had to be found for overcoming the unfavourable gradients ; a siphon effect has been suggested , but that would have involved making the whole length of piping airtight , which seems scarcely credible . |
| 14 | In short if you er ta er taking er Kennedy 's decision over Vietnam , if he decided to do nothing , this would have been very damaging to him politically because of the declared er policy of the global containment of communism and the expectations of his domestic public that the United States would take action to defend the free world wherever the free world was challenged without much questioning about what the free world actually was , I mean the fact that er er South Vietnam was run by a rather squalid dictatorship was neither here nor there erm so erm you have to er evaluate when you 're contemplating er actions of this kind what failure would mean in domestic political terms . |
| 15 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 16 | In the old days this would have been all to the good . |