Example sentences of "it would [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Aye it would been about maybe nineteen seventeen or nineteen eighteen .
2 On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats .
3 Planning can not be socially rational , as it would be under socialism , where planning for need would replace production for profit .
4 A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms .
5 So it is under our present system , and so it would be under the RES , if it were nomination either for a safe constituency seat or for a high position on a party list .
6 This is an imaginary world where fiction would be indistinguishable from fact because , like the novel , it would be under the sign of potentiality .
7 Fourth , we may point out that quite often the potential reference of the noun as modified by the adjective will not be the same in the predicate qualifying construction as it would be under the attributive version .
8 If interest payable under any such agreement or notification is less than it would be under the client money regulations , that fact must be prominently stated in the relevant written consent .
9 It would be worth knowing how many exhibition visitors obeyed these examination instructions .
10 The need for an element of surprise is also glaring , and it would be worth Cox 's monitoring the John Sheridan situation at Forest .
11 Undaunted I was sure it would be worth the effort of breaking them in — and it was .
12 ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . )
13 I did n't know what a kidney was , that it would be worth money .
14 I did n't know what a kidney was , that it would be worth money .
15 Perhaps it would be worth buying a few feminine trifles to leave lying around ?
16 ‘ If Czechoslovakia could persuade its utilities to buy efficient light bulbs , ’ Chandler says , ‘ then it would be worth building a factory to manufacture them . ’
17 It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all .
18 I do not know of any direct evidence that sexually transmitted diseases increase the libido of sufferers , but I conjecture that it would be worth looking into .
19 In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere .
20 Sunderland wanted £4,000 and their manager , Bob Kyle , said it would be worth it for the twenty goals Buchan was bound to score in his first season at Highbury .
21 Inspection of the scatterplot suggested that it would be worth trying to fit a line ; the task is to find one which will come as near as possible to the data points .
22 For instance , if you 're on a traffic junction outside a railway station like Lime Street , you wo n't be there five minutes before you 're approached by some hotelier saying , it would be worth your while to send them up to his hotel .
23 It would be worth no less than $A100 000 and be administered by the Australian Academy of Sciences .
24 It would be worth it , Hugo , to get him off our backs . ’
25 Travelling with Dennis was hardly going to be a delight , but it would be worth it .
26 If there IS a voltage drop across R13 ( but no indication on the ammeter ) it would be worth replacing IC1 ( the LM324 ) with another device .
27 If you had the old one now it would be worth thousands .
28 The idea needs a lot of working up , of course , but far less than an SEC , and I really believe that it would be worth doing .
29 He debated whether it would be worth sending a scout out to that ridge , to give him better warning , but decided against it .
30 But it would be worth making contact with Miss Frances Needham-Burrell when she arrived and asking her — when sorting out her cousin 's effects — to keep an eye open for letters with a threatening or abusive content .
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