Example sentences of "it would [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 2 | Constance was the only adult to whom she would dream of divulging Sam 's plot , since whether Constance approved or not , she would not be difficult about it : clearly , she did not approve , either because the act would be an invasion of property and privacy or because it would land them all in trouble . |
| 3 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 4 | That 's why when I hear my daughter talking about getting fifteen or twenty K a year I 'm going it would pay me two or three years for God 's sake . |
| 5 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |
| 6 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 7 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 8 | I know from experience that if I approached their hives with scented lotion on my hair it would make them angry . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Sewell said : ‘ It would make me seasick before we left port . ’ |
| 10 | If it would make you happier , I could always go away . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're beautiful , and it would make it easy to guess you were a receptionist for a high-powered company . |
| 12 | It would make it worse , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The Bosnian Serbs refused to sign the Vance-Owen plan because , if it were ever implemented , it would make it impossible for this generation of Serbs to link Serbia proper with the Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Croatia to make them a single state . |
| 14 | Although it would break the link between advanced and non-advanced further education , it would make it possible to ‘ develop a single coherent function for higher education outside the universities ’ . |
| 15 | Most importantly , it would make it possible to keep warm for much less cost and therefore mean fewer deaths and fewer illnesses from the effects of living in cold , damp sub-standard housing . |
| 16 | you know , it would make it better cos I got the impression of reading the headline , it meant that you know from the kitchen |
| 17 | If it does decide on Swindon , it would make it one of the biggest re-locations to the town . |
| 18 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |
| 19 | Firstly , it would make it easier for users who are unfamiliar with keyboards to communicate with the computer by using their normal handwriting . |
| 20 | It would make it harder to develop new weapons , but not impossible . |
| 21 | However , erm this is the first chance I 've had to speak today so I ca n't take all the blame of the er , of the , of the late start , erm I do n't know whether it would make it any easier to the my colleagues on my right or my left erm to accept the Liberal resolution . |
| 22 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 23 | At least it would give her more time to recover . |
| 24 | She looked at him reflectively , realising it would give her more time to cope with the task that concerned him . |
| 25 | But it would give them much-needed practice in monitoring lower limits in future . |
| 26 | At least it would give them some idea , at least they would now understand how things were . |
| 27 | Eileen had been horrified , sure it would give them both their death of cold to let the fresh air in at night . |
| 28 | It would give him great pleasure to write a large cheque for something special for Rose 's birthday — a particularly splendid piece of jewellery , perhaps — but he could n't . |
| 29 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 30 | He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper . |