Example sentences of "it would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |
| 2 | If the bonus had risen in line with prices since its introduction in 1972 , it would have been worth £48.85 last Christmas . |
| 3 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 4 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 5 | Some would say it would have been worth it if only to gain some insight into the arcane workings of SCOTVEC . |
| 6 | Had the disengagement happened in any other way , it would have been worth sending all his army , Normans included , crashing through the trees to clean them out while the fighting-power was still in them and Siward 's troops were disorganised by the sudden descent of the cavalry . |
| 7 | Characteristically within traditional professions such as Law and Medicine , it would have been beyond the bounds of decency to put any of one 's peers or the profession itself in a morally ambiguous or cynical light . |
| 8 | This implies that the number of jobs associated with any given level of output in the economy will be smaller than it would have been without the technological advances . |
| 9 | Thanks to the presence of Scottish Hydro-Electric 's storage dams in the hills , the flow passing Perth on 18 January was in fact materially less than it would have been without them . |
| 10 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 11 | It would have been with someone butch , a Guardsman or a man on a building site . |
| 12 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 13 | It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer . |
| 14 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 15 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 16 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 17 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
| 18 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 19 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 20 | I wonder if he hit the floor … if he did it would have been on his head . |
| 21 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 23 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 24 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 25 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be . |
| 27 | My Troop — 10th Leith ( Balfour Melville ) — frequently marched with the rest of the Edinburgh District Scouts and I found the flag holster a great comfort — as it would have been to " Sister Anna " — since , in the song , she only had a " banner-carrying navel " as I recall . |
| 28 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 29 | 1-2-3 release 3.4 for DOS makes nothing easier than it would have been under Windows , but even the Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows version needs a major overhaul before many folk will take it seriously . |
| 30 | It would have been at least as hard for the English to move north and attack the St. Lawrence Valley . |