Example sentences of "[conj] it would [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad . |
| 2 | ‘ Or it would be if it was rendered habitable once more . ’ |
| 3 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 4 | He goes on to say that it would be if it were a condition of another kind . |
| 5 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 6 | A transfer of value is a disposition made by a person ( called the transferor ) as a result of which the value of his estate immediately after the disposition is less than it would be but for the disposition . |
| 7 | Does ‘ business as usual ’ make the trade-off between guns and butter easier than it would be if embargoes were more comprehensive and controls more strict ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is rather like feeling that the dark companion of Sirius is somehow less certainly known because we infer its presence from its gravitational effect upon the Dog Star than it would be if we could actually see it — as if gravity were somehow less real than light . |
| 10 | If punishment is inflicted , it is claimed , the incidence of crime will be less than it would be if no penalty were imposed . |
| 11 | If you were to measure the diameter of the Shuttle 's orbit it would be longer than it would be if the Earth were n't there . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 13 | The price of such goods is less than it would be if producers had to take account of the external costs associated with the production of the good . |
| 14 | The rate of increase of river flow will be greater in the urbanized basin than it would be if the basin were still covered by natural vegetation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And if you look at the professions where women predominate , for example primary teaching and to some measure secondary teaching as well , and in nursing , erm we know that they 're underpaid professions , and I think that if you look at most of the work where women are predominant you 'll find that the pay is less than it would be if men were doing it erm |
| 17 | And then there would be the and then and while it would be while the f the coffin was in the house that it was was it ? |
| 18 | I did n't know whether it would be but I thought , well you could go down and change it . |
| 19 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 20 | It follows that attempting to reduce error rates by one person checking another 's performance or automatically comparing the output of the individuals simultaneously performing the same task is not as effective as it would be if errors in the sources were independent ( Chapanis et al . , |
| 21 | It would indeed be the exception if the pertinent social collectivities were exclusively formed on economic class lines ( even though this may be the plan of certain political forces ) , as it would be if such social collectivities were to appear on the ‘ political stage ’ as political forces in their own right . |
| 22 | ‘ ( 1 ) The consent of a minor who has attained the age of 16 years to any surgical , medical or dental treatment which , in the absence of consent , would constitute a trespass to his person , shall be as effective as it would be if he were of full age ; and where a minor has by virtue of this section given an effective consent to any treatment it shall not be necessary to obtain any consent for it from his parent or guardian . |
| 23 | The most promising argument in favour of W. having an exclusive right to consent to treatment and thus , by refusing consent , to attract the protection of the law on trespass to the person , lies in concentrating upon the words ‘ as effective as it would be if he were of full age . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ ( 1 ) The consent of a minor who has attained the age of 16 years to any … medical … treatment which , in the absence of consent , would constitute a trespass to his person , shall be as effective as it would be if he were of full age ; and where a minor has by virtue of this section given an effective consent to any treatment it shall not be necessary to obtain any consent for it from his parent or guardian . |
| 25 | If a Government department or Birmingham City Council enters into a contract with a building company for the construction of a block of offices , and a dispute arises , the law which governs the matter is essentially the same as it would be if the contract were between two private persons . |
| 26 | I can leave it on the stove or take if off , and either way it wo n't be the same as it would be if we ate it now . ’ |
| 27 | However , if the demand shock is iso-elastic ( as it would be if the firm 's production function were Cobb-Douglas ) , both the MD and the WD curves are unaffected . |
| 28 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 29 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
| 30 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |