Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] it would " in BNC.

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1 The truth is that in European affairs it would be difficult to diminish further the power of this Parliament .
2 In risky situations it would thus be predicted that attention would be focused on information which was important to controlling risk , and information peripheral to this task would be neglected .
3 Although in some circumstances it would appear that steroid use was very sophisticated , in many instances knowledge about drugs and injection technique was very poor ’ .
4 In some circumstances it would not be reasonable that a disposition of property made by an individual before his bankruptcy , or by a company before being wound up , should be allowed to stand .
5 In some cultures it would be necessary for an individual to work with a language helper of the same sex .
6 In some places it would be possible to use the camera as a " fly on the wall " to record examples of transactions in the target language in real-life situations relevant to your students .
7 Erm so I mean I think , you know , it might be useful , well , in some ways it would be very useful for you to have erm two sort of six month stints in rather different environments so that then you 'd sort of keep your options open a bit .
8 In some ways it would have been wiser to remain backstage , allowing his presence to be felt , the sight of him reassuring everyone .
9 Actually erm although councillor is quite correct that we 're providing a service , erm in some ways it would be nice if the government did give us the freedom to operate our business as we choose to do so .
10 It also could not afford the $100m in annual costs it would face to keep the programme going .
11 If fire fighting is to be undertaken in such circumstances it would appear that a range of pre-planned , pre-positioned equipment is necessary , capable of being independently controlled and deployed .
12 In such circumstances it would be difficult for a court to address the use of the statement as an aid to construction without some evaluation of its substance .
13 in such circumstances it would be appropriate to have the words ‘ save by way of set off against damages and/or costs ’ added to the order and our counsel should be advised accordingly .
14 In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere .
15 In such cases it would be reasonable to expect positive responses from the medical attendant after 8 weeks .
16 In such cases it would be relevant to establish whether there is any salvage value in the undamaged item(s) .
17 In these circumstances it would have been astonishing if fundholding had not produced improvements in services for patients .
18 In large hotels it would be impossible for staff to memorise all the names of the guests and their room numbers .
19 But diamond , like other hard precious stones , is quite brittle so that , even if one could get it cheaply in large pieces it would not be a very useful structural substance .
20 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
21 In comparative terms it would appear that there is little cause for alarm at the growth path of UK public expenditure .
22 In all cases it would be entirely reasonable to repeat the results in different years ( or in different seasons of the same year ) .
23 In many wills it would not be needed ; but some of the texts examined show it playing a more vital role .
24 This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls .
25 So far , the thrust of the analysis has been that firms are likely to want vertical integration and that , though in many cases it would be socially desirable , in some it may not be .
26 It is not anticipated that in many cases it would be necessary to seek an interdict .
27 In many ways it would be preferable to attempt to picture a three-dimensional structure as in Figure 8.3 .
28 In many ways it would be playing into the hands of the terrorists if you make daily life unbearable in the capital . ’
29 However , in present circumstances it would be unrealistic to expect ordinary citizens and all but the largest courts or law firms to be able to exploit the possibility .
30 My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success .
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