Example sentences of "would have had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 2 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 3 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 4 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 5 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 6 | If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now . |
| 7 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 8 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 10 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 11 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 13 | The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country . |
| 14 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 15 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 16 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 17 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 18 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 19 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 20 | You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned . |
| 21 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 23 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 24 | A planet with a small mass , midway between Earth and Mars , would have had a low gravity and a thin atmosphere . |
| 25 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 26 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 27 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 28 | We would have had a real problem emptying the Seayak in that swell . |
| 29 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |
| 30 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |