Example sentences of "it would have been very " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 2 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have been very helpful had we known earlier . |
| 4 | Of course it would have been very satisfactory to have seen King 's assailants behind bars . |
| 5 | Currently , the Commission is developing its proposals for development and cohesion , and it would have been very nice to have seen this work unfolding within the context of an informed and radical debate , pushed forward by the socialist parties of all the member states . |
| 6 | It would have been very sad if it had been stopped . ’ |
| 7 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 8 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 9 | But it would have been very different to make him a coach this winter , with all that it entails . ’ |
| 10 | He says : ‘ It would have been very bad to perform at a butcher 's wedding . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been very difficult to appoint a director from one of Germany 's regions . |
| 12 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 13 | Note that in our case it would have been very difficult to construct the normal form without knowing the structure of the denotational model . |
| 14 | It would have been very easy for me to stay there for the rest of my life . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe the fundamental design was flawed , it was far , far too complicated , it would have been very difficult to maintain . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought about it and decided that it would have been very awkward both for my father and everyone else , not least myself . |
| 17 | Presumably some growth could have started before closure on a run-down line , but it would have been very small . |
| 18 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 19 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 20 | It would have been very dangerous if he had not . ’ |
| 21 | Well it would have been very nice if my clients had had the opportunity of a fair trial . |
| 22 | There was one point during my test when I was driving along and erm the I was creeping forward in a stream of traffic and the person in front of me had crossed the solid white line at some traffic lights and the lights changed and it would have been very easy to follow his lights and just carry on |
| 23 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |