Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore it would be remarkable if changes in relative prices and incomes were identical between the two areas . |
| 2 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 3 | In Leetham ( Henry ) & Sons Ltd v Johnstone-White [ 1907 ] 1 Ch 322 Farwell LJ commented : … a man whose business is a corn miller 's business , and who requires to protect that , can not , if he has also a furniture business , require the covenantee who enter into his service as an employee in the corn business to enter into covenants restricting him from entering into competition with him in the furniture business also , because it is not required for the protection of the corn business in which the man is employed , however much it may be beneficial to the individual person , the owner both of the corn business and of the furniture business . |
| 4 | There may be a particular group of people who will buy a company 's products ( eg it would be good business sense to open a stationer 's shop near a University , where there will be a lot of students ) . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 6 | The underlying question for a reader of criticism is what influences are exerted on the critic ; but as in this instance , for long it may be impossible to know the truth . |
| 7 | It wo n't be long it will be ready in the not too |
| 8 | to see how long it will be safe to skate . |
| 9 | Naturally it should be clean and unrumpled and worn with a clean shirt and shoes . |
| 10 | If we 're going to draw some lines perhaps it would be reasonable to say well patients with a flow of greater than fifteen certainly are unlikely to be obstructed , and patients whose detrusor pressure is less than fifty would seem to fail to satisfy our criteria for obstruction , because obstruction in a urodynamic sense implies a high pressure and a low flow . |
| 11 | Perhaps it would be reasonable to assume that 550 deaths are caused in England , Wales and Scotland every year by drunken driving . |
| 12 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 13 | Perhaps it would be possible to cheat it . |
| 14 | Perhaps it would be possible to screen all pernicious anaemia patients gastroscopically at the time of the diagnosis and follow up at least young patients ( those under 60 years of age ) endoscopically every three years . |
| 15 | And so because of that sense of ill ease of fit , we decided that perhaps it would be appropriate for the assembly council to look at where this work ought to most comfortably go . |
| 16 | Perhaps it would be good for him . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would be useful in such cases if the court could , instead of refusing relief completely , grant some sort of declaration which would not impugn the decision affecting the applicant but would state a rule or principle which would apply to future cases . |
| 18 | Perhaps it would be dangerous to tell her . |
| 19 | Boeing paid for it all , and perhaps it would be well for the more cynically-minded who believe aircraft manufacturers are only in the business to make money to remember that Boeing had no legal obligation to contribute a single penny . |
| 20 | SIR — With the present water crisis in the South-East , perhaps it would be helpful to adopt the war-time restriction on baths of no more than five inches of water . |
| 21 | Erm this has been prepared by Mr erm and perhaps it would be helpful if he gave you the flavour of it . |
| 22 | Well they keep a record now do n't they D P keep a record anyway , there is a system where D P keep their own records perhaps it would be helpful they 've authorised |
| 23 | ‘ Since you 're having Suzie 's trail pursued with such vigour , perhaps it would be sensible to stay on until my hotel reservation lapses . ’ |
| 24 | Will you wait here and guard my sack ? perhaps it would be wise to remove it a little from the public view … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps it would be wise , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Perhaps it would be wise to pander a little to his whims since it seemed he was prone to these Viking tendencies . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps it would be wise to search you ? ’ he asks , almost politely , as though it were not a rhetorical question . |
| 28 | Perhaps it would be wise to telephone first . |
| 29 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 30 | If every company conducted the same business , were of the same size , even had the same plans for expansion — then perhaps it would be safe to assume that their asset financing requirements , too , would be the same . |