Example sentences of "it would be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be terrible if you lost this opportunity . |
| 2 | It would be terrible if she were n't all right . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Stobbs , who lives in Killerby , near Darlington , said : ‘ It would be terrible if a wedding is ruined just because the chauffeur does n't turn up . |
| 4 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
| 5 | The remit with regard to the er one day seminar , it was suggested at the last meeting er that it would be useful if the activists of the free union actually got together held a one day seminar or training course whatever terminology you like to put on it er to actually educate ourselves on how we should be conducting the campaign basically . |
| 6 | Lucy Lane interrupted , authority in her voice : ‘ Before we move on , others of you must have seen the safe open from time to time ; it would be useful if we could establish how long the books have been there . ’ |
| 7 | However , it would be useful if attempts could be made , as shown here , to relate later hundredal arrangements to early estates and then see if the disintegration of these can be shown before the Norman Conquest . |
| 8 | The Director encouraged individuals to respond to the Scottish Office — to ensure these efforts are guided , it would be useful if your Divisional response on strategic planning was circulated within our Division as a standard framework . |
| 9 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 10 | It would be useful if the Prime Minister intervened to tell the House precisely what formula he had in mind for the limitation of fiscal deficits . |
| 11 | I hope that the foregoing has served to give some idea of the private legislation procedure from the point of view of a parliamentary agent , and I think in conclusion that it would be useful if I were summarise a few of the problems which appear to affect solicitors , executive officers and advisers locally . |
| 12 | If your coaching structure is not comparable to the categories in the questionnaire , then it would be useful if you could follow the headings as closely as possible and if necessary an ‘ educated guess ’ would be appreciated . |
| 13 | I must admit Chairman , I think it would be useful if the language was fractionally improved . |
| 14 | We 're all aware that for th for their number patients with superficial bladder cancer provide an enormous amount of our workload , and for reasons partly of husbanding our precious resources and also because lots of these patients come up with negative checks reducing the amount of irritation and upset to them it would be useful if we could do less than we do . |
| 15 | First of all , I think it would be useful if we were clear that with the new , ministry was a waste ! |
| 16 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
| 17 | Do you think it would be useful if we talked about that ? |
| 18 | would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman . |
| 19 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 20 | But it would be useful when Athens next got involved in Italy or Sicily , where another Corinthian colony , Syracuse , was growing richer and stronger . |
| 21 | It would be intriguing if orientation detectors play the same fundamental role in the pattern perception of mammals and of insects . |
| 22 | It would be tremendous if all other industries fought with as much passion : the tragedy being that they have n't yet realised that they too are likely to be as overwhelmingly affected . |
| 23 | It would be ludicrous if they did . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It would be expensive and I do n't think it would be appropriate . |
| 25 | It would be humiliating if he ever guessed exactly how she felt about him , how much she envied the other woman . |
| 26 | I thought the idea of kids doing their own thing was that it would be cheap and for everybody , not a clique . |
| 27 | It would be cool and dark within the wood and there was a cold spring . |
| 28 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 29 | Nourse LJ considered it would be arguable that the defendants were " entitled to escape literal application of the agreement " . |
| 30 | ‘ Speaking of manners , ’ Belinda herself put in suddenly , in a rather small but very firm voice , ‘ I think it would be polite if you both stopped speaking about me as if I was n't here ! ’ |