Example sentences of "would [verb] [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 2 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 3 | Last year , two of my hon. Friend 's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge , so this year 's council tax would have been cheaper for them — |
| 4 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |
| 5 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 6 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 7 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 8 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 9 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 10 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 11 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 12 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 13 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 14 | It would have been better for Andrewes ’ literary reputation , and far better for the history of the next reign if he had not done so . |
| 15 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 16 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 17 | If these seem relatively modest benefits , it is perhaps more useful to consider whether a more radical and comprehensive anti-monopoly policy would have been better for society . |
| 18 | Maybe it would have been better for me otherwise ! |
| 19 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
| 20 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |
| 21 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 22 | It would have been better for them to be dead . |
| 23 | If the proposals which I put forward on behalf of the Conservative group had been adopted , £15,000 not £1,500 would have been available for practical environmental issues this year . |
| 24 | ‘ It would have been possible for him , I think . |
| 25 | Without this control it would have been possible for a Committee with a bondholding minority to make bad decisions to the cost of the Bondholders . |
| 26 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 27 | So it would have been possible for the GMC to try to challenge the basis of clinical ecology . |
| 28 | He had , of course , ensured this by demanding the presence of a Polish envoy to discuss them in Berlin before it would have been possible for anyone to get there . |
| 29 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 30 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |