Example sentences of "it would be [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of cases in which each member of a co-operating group is better off than it would be on its own . |
| 2 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |
| 3 | But she did not guess this was how it would be on her first morning . |
| 4 | A writer should suffer and all that — it would be for her own good in the long run . |
| 5 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 7 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 8 | The Israelis must , in their hearts , know this , and it would be to their everlasting credit to acknowledge it . |
| 9 | A letter from a psychiatrist in an unnamed clinic said of the Marquis ' absence ’ It would be against his medical interest to come out today ’ . |
| 10 | Or again , a strong mothering need may motivate a nurse to dress patients when it would be in their best interest to re-learn dressing skills . |
| 11 | ( It would be in my own ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ — Ed . ) |
| 12 | In the circumstances I must advise you that it would be in your best interest to accept this offer with no further delay . |
| 13 | It would be in your own best interests , believe me . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed , given that these cowboys are under-cutting decent employers it would be in your own interest to tackle this problem ’ . |
| 15 | Although our son had only one more year to spend at Liphook Junior School , we decided that it would be in his best interests to send him to another state school in Haslemere . |
| 16 | It would be in his best interests . ’ |
| 17 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 18 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 19 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 20 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |