Example sentences of "[adv] it would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you get more energy back when two light nuclei fuse than it costs to get them together it would seem that we are bound to win . |
| 2 | Later , when she went to the dining-room , Lucy was still simmering with resentment , and she knew that unless she pulled herself together it would begin to show . |
| 3 | It would also weaken the case , the building of third runway at Heathrow and lastly it would reduce the traffic on our already overcrowded road network in the South East and hopefully remove one of the arguments for widening the M twenty five to more than four , four lanes . |
| 4 | The bowl of Rostov 's was so delicate that he felt that if he closed his hand too suddenly it would shatter . |
| 5 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 6 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 7 | She was quiet and calm , and did n't talk much ( I was supposed to do the talking ) and she said she thought I should come every week , and told me how much it would cost . |
| 8 | Can you imagine how much it would cost to extrapolate from these screen sizes to a wall-sized panel ? |
| 9 | A lot of them were in no fit state to know if work needed to be done on their homes or how much it would cost them . ’ |
| 10 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 11 | ‘ But you might like to know what 's possible , and how much it would cost ? ’ |
| 12 | If we could be sure that everyone in the community was equally generous , it might be possible to finance social services by announcing how much it would cost to run the Health Service per head in the coming year and then leave it to individuals to post an appropriate sum to their local health authority . |
| 13 | Imagine how much it would cost to advertise on every page of every newspaper in Scotland . |
| 14 | The Government 's argument is always based on how much it would cost to implement a local income tax system . |
| 15 | I am often upset when people approach British Rail on the safety issue and ask how much it would cost to do the job properly . |
| 16 | Make sure you see it in the shop properly erected and test it out by rocking it back and forth ( as a toddler would ) to see how much it would stand before falling over . |
| 17 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 18 | Your neighbour really likes the tree and wants to know how much it would take to compensate you to leave the tree at its current size . |
| 19 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 20 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 21 | The pre-1974 local authority budget cycle was like this : each committee of a local council would discuss how much it would need to spend in the coming financial year , beginning in April . |
| 22 | Didi judged whether a thing was good or bad by how much it would sell for . |
| 23 | He gave no indication of when the parliament would be formed or for how long it would sit before elections were held . |
| 24 | How long it would last , however , when precisely inflationary pressures would build up , and how much the entire façade rested on Britain 's possession of North Sea oil and associated export revenues , were unanswered questions . |
| 25 | When the inquiry first opened , there were varying predictions about how long it would last . |
| 26 | Farquhar , at his shoulder , turned a cynical eye on all this worthy , pious mildness , and wondered to himself how long it would last . |
| 27 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 28 | The printing press enabled Luther to start a Reformation — think how long it would have taken him to preach his way round Germany . |
| 29 | Can you mind roughly h how long it would have taken you to get the rough survey . |
| 30 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |