Example sentences of "[noun] it would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 2 | A central part of methods it would seem is tacit knowledge , developed and shared by those who work together but resting unformulated and thus unavailable to those without personal contact . |
| 3 | With Eleanor it would have been easy . |
| 4 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 5 | However , without the programme it would have been extinct by 1977 ; it still exists today as a special branch of the Blonde d'Aquitaine , low in numbers but acting as a precious reservoir of interesting dairy-type genes . |
| 6 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 7 | After the success of Ambition it would have been easy to write a follow-up ; but the idea of writing Susan Street 's further adventures was horrific . |
| 8 | If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any such claim provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Proviso ( a ) of Paragraph 2 of Section A of this policy . |
| 9 | Provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Exception ( c ) to Part A of this Policy . |
| 10 | But he refrained from overt agreement , telling himself that in view of his own disreputable pleasure it would have been hypocritical . |
| 11 | Now if it had been the north side it would have been a straight line . |
| 12 | In an English village it would have been converted into something quaint , selling teas and postcards . |
| 13 | ‘ If this bank had played a role in the Hoylake/BAT battle it would have been top of the table , ’ said Philip Healey , editor of Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 14 | But when Baby came she thought if it was a Nigerian boy it would have been so easy . |
| 15 | Lord Pearson agreed that if there had been an error it would have been jurisdictional but found no such mistake . |
| 16 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 17 | You see I am , you can see what I 'm suggesting to you , there 's not much point in an armed officer guarding an eleven year old child it would have been obvious to go to the master bedroom , but you deny it . |
| 18 | If she and Lowell had had a child it would have been a strange hybrid , perhaps difficult to love . |
| 19 | If the upper part had been true as to intervals it would have been in B major , and of course the tonal results would have been chaotic : organ Whether intervals are true or false does not matter to listeners , who can not easily distinguish the difference . |
| 20 | erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves . |
| 21 | And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story . |
| 22 | In these circumstances it would have been astonishing if fundholding had not produced improvements in services for patients . |
| 23 | In other circumstances it would have been comic . |
| 24 | In all likelihood it would have been considered by the Air Ministry , and quietly stored , with the many other ‘ war-winning ’ schemes , from the possible to the ridiculous . |
| 25 | If she could have gone to bed with him at that moment it would have been all right . |
| 26 | But thanks to their 28 victories in the constituencies the Conservatives would have had nine seats ( 28 minus 19 ) too many , whilst from the pool of ten additional seats it would have been impossible to furnish both the nine additional seats due to Labour ( 11 minus two won in constituencies ) and the ten additional seats owing to the Liberals . |
| 27 | But of her job as Minister of Health she said : ‘ If I had been forced to pick any job it would have been this one . ’ |
| 28 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 29 | Any notice direction or communication given hereunder by one party to the other if sent by post to the last known place of business of the other party shall be deemed to have been served on the date when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the other party . |
| 30 | ‘ We decided that in the interests of safety it would have been unwise to stage Flat racing on the track . ’ |