Example sentences of "[pron] would be nice [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be nice to think that if people knew the correct diet for them particularly the correct diet for weight loss , they would simply go and follow it , and that would be the end of obesity . |
| 2 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 3 | Bruce declared : ‘ It would be nice to say that if we won against Villa we would win the League . |
| 4 | It would be nice to pretend that our decision to try retinoic acid , a derivative of vitamin A , was based on sound chemical principles . |
| 5 | Lastly , although it would be nice to feel that everybody charts the forward direction absolutely correctly , the reality of life is that this is an almost impossible ambition . |
| 6 | It would be nice to find that the campanile is original Romanesque , but alas it is as modern as 1820 , replacing the first that had long since collapsed . |
| 7 | It would be nice to write that despite these lapses of judgment , not to mention the occasional maladministration , investors and other stakeholders in business do not have to worry because of the safety superstructure which has been built since . |
| 8 | It would be nice to believe that the Health Secretary spends all his time understanding the very latest developments in heart-lung transplants . |
| 9 | It would be nice to believe that the International Board could sort it out , but they do n't seem to want to . |
| 10 | TODAY being Armistice Day , it would be nice to think that this afternoon 's League programme can be completed without the police having to separate fighting footballers . |
| 11 | Best New Band was the smooth and highly wrought funk ensemble , Roadside Picnic ( it would be nice to think that the more raw-boned but full-blooded Pinski Zoo had run them close ) , Andy Sheppard walked off with both Best Instrumentalist and Best Album prizes ( the latter for Introductions In The Dark ) , and Stan Tracey picked up Best Composer . |
| 12 | It would be nice to think that it was a very prosperous affair . |
| 13 | It would be nice to think that all this is true . |
| 14 | It would be nice to think that these incidents are isolated but they are not . |
| 15 | It would be nice to think that the tree frogs had legends about it . |
| 16 | It would be nice to think that they thought the sun and moon were distant flowers — a yellow one by day , a white one by night . |
| 17 | It would be nice to think that she woke up one day and thought , ‘ I 've got to do Michael 's show . ’ |
| 18 | It would be nice to think that this presentation is the end of it and that the client says " Go ahead " , and the agency produces the campaign . |
| 19 | It would be nice to think that we do n't have to consider this , we did n't have to have meetings with our local police to decide what we 're going to do on the day of the match in case there is trouble . |
| 20 | It would be nice to think that a rapid flow of projects will be generated by this initiative and in due course this may be so . |
| 21 | It would be nice to think that someone was . |
| 22 | This is within , as members will be aware , the overall financial position that the County Council finds itself in , of having to get its expenditure within the cap , and the fact that the increase in cap for the authority as a whole , does not in any way , mirror the increase in standard spending assessment for Social Services Committee , where we have been fortunate in terms the increase for this county , erm , and a variety of other factors which , which mean that it would be nice to think that where S S A increases for this Committee , it also increases for the County Council . |
| 23 | Well , I mean you may be right I ca n't be I 'm not I 'm not absolutely certain myself but er it would be nice to think that we were represented at a local authority level , yeah , by different cross-sections of our community . |
| 24 | It would be nice to think that the case Alfred McTear began might be the one . ’ |
| 25 | It would be nice to think that this is allowed , that children are allowed to play out their fears and their feelings erm but I do believe it 's when they 're young that we need to start building up this self esteem and , you know , giving them permission if you like to talk quite comfortably about emotions . |