Example sentences of "it would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but I should have thought by now it 'd 've been better . |
| 2 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 3 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
| 4 | It 'd have been better if I 'd kept them two . |
| 5 | Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better . |
| 6 | if we 'd have started de it 'd have been another six months , no disrespect to Adrian but , you know , I , I just know the history of how it would have progressed . |
| 7 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 8 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 9 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 10 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 11 | It would 've been best with a bigger piece , bigger programme because then we could 've it was easy to see where we were slipping |
| 12 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
| 13 | It would 've been easier if I got into dealing again , but I ca n't afford any more heavy scenes with the law . |
| 14 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 15 | Well , it would 've been handy would n't it ? some of them . |
| 16 | S : No sitcom ever changed my life — had you said soap opera , it would 've been different . |
| 17 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 18 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 19 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 20 | It would have been simpler , and possibly safer , to ignore it . |
| 21 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 22 | It would have been simpler to post the cheque . |
| 23 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 24 | But I did n't because it would have been cruel and no one is ever cruel to June . |
| 25 | ‘ She did n't , I think , mention that , ’ Gilbert sounded detached , as though it would have been ill-mannered of him to enquire . |
| 26 | As an alternative , he proposes that the test be ‘ whether it would have been unreasonable for the doctor not to have proceeded ’ . |
| 27 | It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic . |
| 28 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 29 | It would have been sad if her marriage , also , had been sacrificed . |
| 30 | It would have been foolhardy to risk weakening it at a time when the Cold War was about to turn hot in Korea . |