Example sentences of "[adv] it would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But she wondered uneasily how long it would be before Tom himself finished with his patient over on the other ward and came back here . |
| 3 | His words filled Lucy with relief , but she could n't help wondering how long it would be before Doreen actually occupied that position . |
| 4 | For a brief moment , she actually thought he would defy the old man , but then her heart sank when he sheepishly replied , ‘ Perhaps it would be for the best , dear . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps it would be worth buying a few feminine trifles to leave lying around ? |
| 6 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 7 | So it would be worth running a small slightly unprofitable or non profit making business , to keep your tax bill down . |
| 8 | So it is under our present system , and so it would be under the RES , if it were nomination either for a safe constituency seat or for a high position on a party list . |
| 9 | It sounds pretty good and it would be around about May the twenty first twenty second , so it would be after the football season has finished er so we 'd have a tour of Old Trafford , the Manchester United football ground behind the scenes , go to the special museum there , see all of their trophies , do something similar at Anfield the following morning and in the afternoon on the Saturday go to Granada T V studios and er on the Sunday we 'll be going er around Liverpool and their various er little places of nostalgia around the er the Beatles . |
| 10 | Clearly , those who drafted the Directive thought that normally it would be in the interests of the employee to transfer with the business . |
| 11 | Soon it would be half-past seven , and exactly at half-past seven she would ring the aerodrome . |
| 12 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt I needed advice about the base unit because I was n't sure how easy it would be to mass produce from the prototype which had hemispheres studded into it . |
| 14 | The knowledge of how easy it would be to just reach out and take the Robe of Eyes and wear it and be able to see into other people s deepest thoughts flooded her mind , scaldingly . |
| 15 | It struck me how easy it would be to — I shook my head clear of the silly thought . |
| 16 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 17 | And it struck Shiona , not for the first time , as she looked into those blue , accusing eyes , how easy it would be for her to clear her name . |
| 18 | But a £1 billion Eurobond would be the biggest the market has ever had to digest and capital markets experts were yesterday sceptical about how easy it would be for Lloyd 's to make such an issue without hefty costs . |
| 19 | Meanwhile it would be of great help if the accuracy of death certification could be improved , possibly through audit . |
| 20 | Well that 's interesting because yes we have we have discussed that and I do n't know whether the er the clerk wants to comment further but I think that is absolutely right and and if that could be taken further it would be of very positive benefit to you know the car parking problem for those people who want to shop on King Street and have difficulties in find a car parking space . |
| 21 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 22 | So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by . |
| 23 | If you had the old one now it would be worth thousands . |
| 24 | If he ever left Everton now it would be for a modest fee . |
| 25 | If he gave up now it would be like walking a hundred miles and then refusing to take the very last single step that would complete the journey . |
| 26 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 27 | Well it would be on my terms , there 's no way I 'd go cos I know it 's against the law |
| 28 | Well it would be round nineteen seventy three seventy four . |
| 29 | If you had put £25 per month into a savings plan with the Pru when your child was born TEN years ago it would be worth £5,661 . |
| 30 | There could however be a tribunal which had jurisdiction to determine whether the preliminary state of facts existed ; here it would be for the inferior tribunal to decide upon all the facts . |