Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] [conj] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 2 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 3 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 4 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 5 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 6 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 7 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 8 | No I , I really , I 've got ta be very careful , that 'll be better cos it 's got the elastic , right we 'd better get on then had n't we ? |
| 9 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 10 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 11 | But at least that cloud means it 'll be milder than it 's been recently , with overnight temperatures up above freezing , about three degrees celsius , that 's thirty seven fahrenheit . |
| 12 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 13 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 14 | The skin around his neck is loose and his waist is thicker than it has ever been . |
| 15 | point of view when the information 's been com when so it 's coming in and being sorted it is better that it 's done at that particular time |
| 16 | Since there are more carp and more carp fisheries around today , and so many anglers fishing for carp , it is inevitable that the number caught is higher than it has ever been . |
| 17 | Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ? |
| 18 | First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million . |
| 19 | It 's just like Gameboy but it 's longer and it 's got better games on it you know . |
| 20 | The law is tighter than it has ever been , and it has the backing of both sides of the House . |
| 21 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 22 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 23 | What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 25 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 26 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 27 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 28 | Progress was slower than it had been upstairs . |
| 29 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 30 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |