Example sentences of "would have had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 32 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 33 | For Henry James the great house is a presence by itself , ‘ a serenity of success , an accumulation of dignity and honour ’ ; ‘ the spectacle of long duration unassociated with some sordid infirmity or poverty ’ ; ‘ a place of which the beauty would have had a sweet odour ’ even in the absence of ‘ flowers in rare vases ’ ; ‘ the ache of antiquity ’ ; ‘ the sign of appointed felicity' . |
| 34 | This would be expected because , first , they would have been socialized into a version of mathematics nearer to that of the university ‘ modern ’ pure mathematicians than that of their elders and because , secondly , they would have had a potential interest in changes that could , within schools , challenge the seniority of their elder colleagues or , at least , they would have had less of a vested interest in current practice . |
| 35 | Had this proposal been implemented , it would have had a disastrous effect on the morale and effectiveness of L Detachment . |
| 36 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 37 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 38 | The only way he can justify it to himself , is the belief that otherwise the animal would have had a miserable life . |
| 39 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
| 40 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |