Example sentences of "it would [adv] [be] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 And indeed the logic of their oppositeness is so variable and opaque , it would surely be amazing if these particular pairs were inborn .
2 It would also be expensive if realistic salaries were paid and the existing number of councillors retained .
3 It would also be helpful if departments could receive feedback from the senior house officers on the quality of their education .
4 It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business .
5 It would also be inequitable if taxes were levied on houses built by modest households , while the occupiers of ‘ social flats ’ were allowed to enjoy the privilege of heavily subsidized accommodation , which they often — illegally — rent to subtenants at very high rents .
6 We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice .
7 It would also be interesting if a similar series of texts could be developed to provide chemists with more specialised or vocational understanding of other branches of chemistry , or even chemical economics or marketing .
8 I 'm in no hurry to get married , and anyway , it would n't be right while you 're still wishing you could be married to someone else .
9 It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set .
10 Oh yes , oh absolutely , I mean it would n't be therapeutic if we were n't producing good quality stuff , that 's part of the therapy — yes ?
11 My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest .
12 She , it would n't be bad if she 'd sit in there .
13 ‘ Of course I feel bitter , it would n't be natural if I did n't . ’
14 It would just be nice if we could get a goal lead for a change .
15 It would just be awful if her family put her away somewhere .
16 A Mareva injunction will be available whatever the cause of action , provided that it is one which may ultimately lead to enforcement against the defendant 's assets ; it would not be available where the relief sought was purely declaratory .
17 The man took a lot of convincing that it would not be well unless it was stitched ; and when John said that he would pay , there was a further argument .
18 It would not be surprising if Japanese tourists now go in search of gardens she created , or of the grave into which her coffin was gently lowered by gardeners in 1932 .
19 After 20 years of close co-operation , it would not be surprising if there were a pro-Iraq lobby inside the Soviet ministry of defence .
20 The commencement of the major attack on Britain and ‘ the complete destruction of the island ’ was now seen as urgent ; Germany , it was felt , could last a third war winter , but sabotage would increase , and it would not be surprising if another ‘ November 1918 ’ was the result .
21 It would not be surprising if the surplus were now between £200m and £300m , giving a total for the newly enlarged BTR group of about £750m .
22 It would not be surprising if you found that the work started arriving either only just on time or even late .
23 It would not be surprising if Nicholas did n't share his things next time round .
24 Let us admit that since the FFYP was the very first exercise of its kind in history , it would not be surprising if there were discrepancies , failures of some kind .
25 Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake .
26 So it would not be surprising if our Sun were in partnership with another star which had degenerated to become a black hole .
27 Add all these problems together and it would not be surprising if some employees refuse foreign postings .
28 It would not be surprising if by now she had forgotten my name .
29 It would not be surprising if , to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions , reformers had to work very hard .
30 It would not be surprising if today 's figures were underestimates , too .
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