Example sentences of "[vb base] it would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians .
2 They say it would make journeys too uncomfortable for passengers and slow their journey times , making services uneconomical .
3 say it would start ju just re recap
4 The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester .
5 As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong .
6 They say it would have been nice to have had discussions with the contractors before any action was taken.An officer will be on the site , first thing tomorrow .
7 I say no , I say it would have been harsh to give it .
8 They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building .
9 And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see .
10 Yeah If you could hear what she say it 'd make a difference I expect I 'd of gone for another vowel there , it you 'd gone for E it of been
11 Well I still think that well say you have a big massive thing and , and say it 'd take a hundred people mm er I suppose the bigger it is the more economical it is .
12 Only those who really want it would buy it , saving you expense .
13 ‘ It would make horrible great holes in you , ’ explained Lydia , ‘ and I imagine it would hurt like hell . ’
14 Hence , to issue new shares at a substantial discount to the market price and then underwrite it would appear to be a case of double indemnity in which the primary insurer is assured of a very small probability of having to make a compensation payment .
15 Like Flaubert , I left Belle-Ile hoping to return — and hoping , too , that the island 's isolation and the occasional fogs that cover it would discourage too many other tourists .
16 well as I say I recall it would have been nineteen eighty eight , eighty nine , I ca n't recall precisely
17 Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though .
18 If the plans were to be implemented as they stand it would mean a significant deterioration in Maternity services .
19 There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time .
20 After the many modifications subsequently made to his scheme , the STV as we know it would ensure the subservience of all of them .
21 Whatever the reasons for your action , you know it would earn goodwill — IM
22 If I was charged for all that I get , I know it would cost too much for me to pay .
23 Daddy , you know it would break my heart , if anything happened to you .
24 Relegation is a swear word at Wimbledon because we know it would threaten our existence .
25 I know it would help to talk to someone but I find it so hard to open up .
26 you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know
27 We know it would have been possible to have left the switch alone but — given a bit of forward planning and some wire — to have completed an ad hoc electrical circuit so that the wipers did start to work , just as and when they did .
28 I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think .
29 I know , I know it would have done
30 product , we 've just got one row for one product at the moment but in the future you might want to insert another row and er the product B and then all I would need to do is just copy the formula down and I know it would work cos I made it copyable down as well .
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