Example sentences of "[that] it would [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 2 | Applications must be made to a circuit judge , who can issue the warrant by virtue of section 9 and Schedule 1 if he is satisfied that it would have been appropriate to issue a warrant prior to the Act . |
| 3 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 4 | By now the fog had lifted , but it was so dark that it would have been futile to return to the scene of the mysterious train to discover for themselves any clues as to its reality or otherwise . |
| 5 | You might think that it would have been easy enough to reconstruct the evolutionary pathway , but it was n't . |
| 6 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 7 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , of course — the meeting to discuss the Christmas bazaar , ’ said Ianthe , remembering now that it would have been impossible for her to have had the quiet evening she had planned . |
| 9 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |
| 10 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 11 | Erm but I I would have thought that it would have been necessary to examine that sector against all the others before reaching any conclusion as to whether or not i it could be more successfully assimilated into the landscape of that sector as opposed to anywhere else . |
| 12 | The deed was to him so monstrous , so surprising , that it would have been intolerable not to have shared it with a living soul . |
| 13 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 14 | It 's just that it would have been nice to have seen the signs , ’ said Caspar , rolling the maps up and packing them in his saddle bag . |
| 15 | He is saying that it would have been unlawful to honour the patient 's request , even if he had been willing to do so . |
| 16 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 17 | Still , he enjoyed the chairmanship and gets very cross if anyone suggests that it would have been difficult for anyone to have thrown away a Tory victory in post-Falklands Britain with a Labour Party led by Michael Foot . |
| 18 | There was so much rubbish and broken glass littered about anyway that it would have been difficult for anyone to climb out without making a lot of noise . |
| 19 | Dr Reid added that it would have been difficult to suggest any change in the administration of antibiotics . |
| 20 | Sheriff Crozier said yesterday that it would have been wrong of him to deal with the matter behind the scenes . |
| 21 | Mark himself states that it would have been remarkable for Jesus to have found fruit on the tree for it was not even the proper season for fruit . |
| 22 | He nevertheless maintained that it would have been irresponsible of him to have gone forward without warning colleagues of his reservations . |
| 23 | He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy . |
| 24 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 25 | Yes but my Lord d dealing also with the suggestion by the defendants that it would have been improper to advise him to serve completion notice when he was n't in a position to complete and the solicitor deals with the the expert deals also with that position as to what is the practice of a solicitor in that situation if there 's a potential er problem for that particular solicitor to what the advice should be as to how the client should deal with the that . |
| 26 | Poulter argues that it would have been inappropriate to have given all the principal religious traditions represented in Great Britain equal weight in the RE syllabus , since it would leave Christianity being reflected in just one-sixth of the course . |
| 27 | If the bias we have detected in broadcasting was not obvious to media specialists we can hardly expect that it would have been obvious to the general public . |
| 28 | If the clause had been drafted in narrower terms , covering only clients of that branch , then , the judges said : ‘ There is little doubt that it would have been valid . ’ |