Example sentences of "it would [be] [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | " It would be to un-create the Creation . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Britain , he said , needed to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep-sea mining regime and that it would be exploring the prospects for these . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not not because it would be meeting the housing needs of York . |
| 10 | Calls in America and Britain for further cuts in interest rates underline how easy it would be to repeat the mistake . |
| 11 | if you did n't put enough middle in it , it would sort of sink then , then it would be drawing the water in |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it is well known that the provision of advice services nationally is uneven and as the best.known generalist advice agency , the CAB feels that it would be failing the wider community if it did not consider what barriers may be preventing people from approaching a CAB for advice . |
| 18 | Only Ana 's predicament made it possible — that and a sneaky feeling of how wonderful it would be to get the better of el conde . |
| 19 | An empty lifestyle does seem to increase the chances of wool-sucking , and probably the best cure for it would be to make the cat 's way of life more surprising and complex . |
| 20 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 21 | Published by the research arm of the Department of Transport , the report comes shortly after the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham announced it would be introducing the scheme later this month . |
| 22 | But it would be stretching the meaning of citizenship to regard these rights — however desirable they may be from other points of view — as forming part of an enlarged ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 23 | The republic proclaimed , as a sovereign and independent state , that the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) was no longer valid on its territory and that it would be continuing the process of assuming de facto authority . |
| 24 | The FRC had earlier announced that it would be releasing the three hostages in response to an appeal by the Libyan leader Col. Moamar al Kadhafi . |
| 25 | But it is foolish to look for great intellectual nourishment from a parasite , just as it would be to expect the delicacies of romantic love in the company of a hired prostitute . |
| 26 | Soon it would be crossing the wide patch in front of the gates , where the great chain hung uselessly from the broken padlock . |
| 27 | It would be deciding the issue in advance , if she took it . |
| 28 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |