Example sentences of "been [adj -er] [conj] it [vb past] " 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 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |