Example sentences of "be [adj -er] [conj] it [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | You will do that because you think their price will be lower when it comes to delivering them back to the lender at an agreed date . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | Unlike the rock pitch on the Wellenkuppe , the gendarme turned out to be steeper than it looked . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Against : Documentation would be better if it included a tutorial , as it is sometimes quite difficult to follow . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if it did . ’ |
| 17 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
| 18 | This may be faster but it leads to a kicking action that tends to collide with the opponent 's leading knee rather than pass over it . |
| 19 | For this reason the speed of the speech may be slower than it looks , the cigarette smoking being used to punctuate it . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Reviews from the West Yorkshire Playhouse where the show was first seen last year suggest that it might be funnier than it sounds . |
| 22 | This understanding from the ‘ Great Satan ’ will do the king little good at home , but his position may be stronger than it looks . |
| 23 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 26 | Fortunately , it 's simpler than it looks . |
| 27 | Such a scheme is simpler as it avoids the necessity for a reduction of share capital . |
| 28 | Admittedly , this last complaint , made at the very start of the chapter , is harsher than it sounds . |
| 29 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 30 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |