Example sentences of "it would have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 2 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 3 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 4 | It would 've been best with a bigger piece , bigger programme because then we could 've it was easy to see where we were slipping |
| 5 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
| 6 | It would 've been easier if I got into dealing again , but I ca n't afford any more heavy scenes with the law . |
| 7 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 8 | Well , it would 've been handy would n't it ? some of them . |
| 9 | S : No sitcom ever changed my life — had you said soap opera , it would 've been different . |
| 10 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 11 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 12 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 13 | It would have been simpler , and possibly safer , to ignore it . |
| 14 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 15 | It would have been simpler to post the cheque . |
| 16 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 17 | But I did n't because it would have been cruel and no one is ever cruel to June . |
| 18 | ‘ She did n't , I think , mention that , ’ Gilbert sounded detached , as though it would have been ill-mannered of him to enquire . |
| 19 | As an alternative , he proposes that the test be ‘ whether it would have been unreasonable for the doctor not to have proceeded ’ . |
| 20 | It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic . |
| 21 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 22 | It would have been sad if her marriage , also , had been sacrificed . |
| 23 | It would have been foolhardy to risk weakening it at a time when the Cold War was about to turn hot in Korea . |
| 24 | It would have been agreeable if Mr William Ross , who was also in the House , could have been generous enough to admit his own past errors and congratulate his successor on his decision . |
| 25 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 26 | It would have been unremarkable had this been done through the publication of explanatory leaflets and brochures emanating from the Ministry of Transport . |
| 27 | A consultant paediatrician said the bruising would have caused a degree of distress when inflicted but it would have been temporary . |
| 28 | And it would have been good because it was per The only thing was he would have had to have gone up to and do a survival course . |
| 29 | This being the case it would have been good to have had some assessment of Kellner 's copy of the cello suites , recently issued in facsimile by Bärenreiter together with Anna Magdalena 's copy and two others . |
| 30 | Had that led to a dramatic detection of crime , it would have been good , but I understand that the surveys then carried out suggest that in only 0.03 per cent . |