Example sentences of "it would [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As a consequence , feudal contracts in the full sense of the term must have been more important for supplying castle-guard than for campaigning ( though it would be pushing the argument too far to deny them any significance in the field ) .
2 It would be breaking the habit of a lifetime .
3 How much simpler it would be to parasitise a member of your own species .
4 On Sunday afternoons the Vicar of Askrigg used to pass Semerwater on his way to take evensong in his other parish of Stalling Busk , and he often thought how pleasant it would be to hold an open air service on the shores of the lake .
5 In fact , the beauty all around was so breathtaking that , for the first time in his life , he actually caught himself thinking what a shame it would be to put a railway line here , to bring dirt and clamour to this Eden .
6 It would be a trespass to goods and it would be usurping the owner 's rights , for only he would have any right to do such an act and no one could contend that there was any implied consent or authority to a customer to do any such thing .
7 " It would be to un-create the Creation . "
8 Paragraph 19 was merely ancillary to paragraph 16. ( 2 ) If the FPC did not impose limitations it would be facilitating the frustration of the doctor 's paragraph 16 duties .
9 It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know .
10 I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland .
11 Britain , he said , needed to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep-sea mining regime and that it would be exploring the prospects for these .
12 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 .
13 Langlois-Château said that it would be developing a range of single domaine wines in the future .
14 If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years .
15 Somehow they must be made to realize that it would be meeting a demand , a creditably innovative idea and not immoral , illegal or fattening , which really would make life , and death , a lot easier and cheaper for many .
16 Not not because it would be meeting the housing needs of York .
17 Calls in America and Britain for further cuts in interest rates underline how easy it would be to repeat the mistake .
18 would n't it anyway , so it would be taking a bite out of that reduced cherry .
19 if you did n't put enough middle in it , it would sort of sink then , then it would be drawing the water in
20 There would have been the ill-lit halls , impractical sanitary arrangements , filthy rush-laid floors and sparsely furnished rooms ; and if period duplicates had existed of Elizabethan interiors or classical Queen Anne houses that showed the inadequate lighting , heating and plumbing of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , how much easier , the guests agreed , it would be to appreciate the modern refinements which their own contemporaries took so much for granted .
21 It may perhaps be more difficult to alarm him than it would be to alarm the vulnerable persons whom the offence is principally designed to protect .
22 One simple way to prevent it would be to fit a broad-band electrical filter next to every electricity meter .
23 I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument .
24 I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day .
25 The DoE said it would be making a " robust reply " to the European Commission 's request for evidence that the directive was being applied .
26 It would be ignoring the reality of the current trading position if I said I did n't believe there were more closures to come .
27 And imagine how difficult it would be to find a replacement with the same level of knowledge , experience , ability , authority or reputation .
28 The ghost of the Duke of Windsor haunted the minds of the family , patently aware that the older he became the more difficult it would be to find a virginal , Protestant aristocrat to be his bride .
29 How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years !
30 If further away the new settlement would be from York , the less likely it would be to meet the needs of Greater York , more likely to meet the needs of other areas , such as Leeds .
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