Example sentences of "it would [verb] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some would say it would have been worth it if only to gain some insight into the arcane workings of SCOTVEC . |
| 2 | Thanks to the presence of Scottish Hydro-Electric 's storage dams in the hills , the flow passing Perth on 18 January was in fact materially less than it would have been without them . |
| 3 | It would have been with someone butch , a Guardsman or a man on a building site . |
| 4 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 5 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
| 6 | I wonder if he hit the floor … if he did it would have been on his head . |
| 7 | It would have been like something out of the Keystone Cops . |
| 8 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 9 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 10 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |