Example sentences of "it would [be] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have seen this as illogical , and so it would be if the only reason for the rule that the release of one joint contractor releases the other is that there is only one obligation . |
| 2 | Indeed , so visible are the taxes required to pay for services that some taxpayers may never use , that the total of public spending in a democracy is less than it would be if the real needs of society were to be met . |
| 3 | Such uncertainty can be reduced by strict contractual agreements , but the danger , for example , of late deliveries interrupting the flow of production is still greater than it would be if the firm expanded in-house production . |
| 4 | What a disaster it would be if the local bus company decided not to run bus services after about 3 o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 5 | If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ . |