Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] [subord] it [vb past] " 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 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 7 | The fashionable question ‘ How does the head office add value ? ’ would be clearer if it asked , ‘ When and why does a firmlet gain from being part of a company ? ’ |
| 8 | Unlike the rock pitch on the Wellenkuppe , the gendarme turned out to be steeper than it looked . |
| 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 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 11 | Against : Documentation would be better if it included a tutorial , as it is sometimes quite difficult to follow . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if it did . ’ |
| 13 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
| 14 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 15 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 16 | Ah now that 's better only it felt as if my |
| 17 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 18 | Thinking that it was heavier than it looked , he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap . |
| 19 | It was heavier than it looked . |
| 20 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 24 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Progress was slower than it had been upstairs . |
| 28 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 29 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |
| 30 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |