Example sentences of "[conj] it would be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 2 | Although Nourse LJ does not categorically state what the law is in this situation , his decision indicates and points towards the view that the defendants may be able to escape the restrictions of the sale agreement where it would be inequitable to allow the plaintiff to rely on the strict wording . |
| 3 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 4 | But outside her room , Mildred was just a common frog who had strayed into the school , where it would be unlikely to occur to anyone ( except the wicked person who had done the deed ) that it might be a second-year witch under an enchantment . |
| 5 | Clearly there may be some negotiations where it would be unwise to assume that an obligation of confidence will arise . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm thankful it was n't finished or it would be impossible to maintain with the small congregations we have . ’ |
| 7 | An assessor would be needed to be brought into the workplace at a cost , or it would be necessary to go to an assessor . |
| 8 | The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt . |
| 9 | It would be surprising to find a great deal of this type of activity in any organization , although it would be sad to see none . |
| 10 | Artefacts found on both sides of the North Sea provide an important reference point , although it would be easy to question the basis of the chronology of such objects in Scandinavia and North Germany . |
| 11 | Although it would be nice to see someone apart from Strach get annoyed on the pitch every now and then . |
| 12 | Although it would be nice to go over to Bradford . |
| 13 | Lastly , although it would be nice to feel that everybody charts the forward direction absolutely correctly , the reality of life is that this is an almost impossible ambition . |
| 14 | It 's too hot and humid during the summer , and all the labs close down after May , although it would be nice to have two apartments , one here and one there in the winter . |
| 15 | Standard periods would be prescribed for different types of business , although it would be possible to apply for a special timetable at an early stage and for detailed variations of the timetable . |
| 16 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 17 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 18 | So , although it would be wrong to derive the family form directly from developments in capitalism , the new domestic ideal was not a completely autonomous development . |
| 19 | Although it would be wrong to see the injustices suffered by a Viscountess as equivalent to those of the poor , Irwin 's willingness to examine questions of gender and class together make ‘ An Epistle to Mr. Pope ’ a striking and significant composition . |
| 20 | Although it would be wrong to presume that teachers who are excellent in their off-site unit work with small groups of pupils could necessarily become the vanguard of a new service they can provide the focus for some initial developments . |
| 21 | Although it would be wrong to try to read too much into such a light-hearted production , Udo 's reliance on Goethe as his travel guide ( ‘ 200 years old and still topical ’ ) is surely a statement that , while political systems may come and go , German literature remains . |
| 22 | The Tories in general were more isolationist than the Whigs , although it would be wrong to suggest that they were not sympathetic to the desire to contain France after 1689 . |
| 23 | This is a tremendously creative and self-expressive period of the year , although it would be foolish to expect an easy ride . |
| 24 | The public library needs both in an uncertain financial climate , and although it would be unfair to question the motivation of public librarians mounting courses for adults , the end product often produces an ultimately useful adult library user . |
| 25 | This is additional to the report the guardian ad litem is obliged to prepare although it would be unusual to request a report from a court welfare officer where a guardian is already involved . |
| 26 | Although it would be difficult to document the generalisation , it seems to me that there has been a significant decline , over the past ten or fifteen years , in the degree of confidence in the scope and security of foundations in both psychology and linguistics . |
| 27 | This could be done by heating it ( although it would be difficult to avoid heating the other layers as well ) , but the layer reacts more quickly if an applied voltage between s1 and s2 rapidly increases the power density inside the material . |
| 28 | A flower or tree might well be said to show signs of distress much as an athlete might unwittingly show symptoms of it , although it would be inappropriate to describe a watch in that way . |
| 29 | Unless this provision is satisfied , any yearly interest paid by a company must be paid subject to deduction of basic rate income tax , and Target will need to comply with paras 2 to 4 of Sch 16 to the Taxes Act 1988 and account to the Revenue for the tax it is liable to withhold ; the lender will suffer the cash-flow disadvantage of receiving interest payments with tax withheld at source ( although it would be entitled to offset the withholding tax suffered against its corporation tax liability for the same accounting period under s7(2) TA 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Mr Ian Lang has gained his reward for presiding over a modest Tory revival in Scotland , although it would be unwise to suppose that the difficulties of governing Scotland will go away . |