Example sentences of "it would [verb] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been otherwise if he had covenanted to paint in the quarter " preceding the expiry or sooner determination of the said term " . |
| 2 | To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’ |
| 3 | It would have been physically and economically impossible for the whole of Africa , for example , to twist and turn its way out of the straitjacket that colonialism imposed upon its economies and industrialize to the point where it could compete effectively on the world market in the space of 10 years . |
| 4 | Wetting the underneath of the saddle with it would have been more than enough to kill the horse . |
| 5 | It would have been more than her life was worth . |
| 6 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |