Example sentences of "would have had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 5 | A planet with a small mass , midway between Earth and Mars , would have had a low gravity and a thin atmosphere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We would have had a real problem emptying the Seayak in that swell . |
| 10 | Mary would have had a blue fit if she had known about Ethel Ramsden 's adventure : |
| 11 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 12 | I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate . |
| 13 | These intra-uterine devices would have had a contraceptive effect and were relied on by some women for that purpose . |
| 14 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 17 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 18 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 19 | However , undoubtedly the night air would have had a sobering effect , especially as the walk was some 2¾ miles long . |
| 20 | So important , in fact , that such a cloud would have had a braking effect on the Sun 's spin over aeons of time . |
| 21 | A significant number of subjects ( 7/37 ) , however , had food reflux that was outside one standard deviation from the mean , whereas only one of these subjects would have had a positive reflux score by measuring acid alone . |
| 22 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 23 | Paying tribute , the Prime Minister said she was a ‘ trusted adviser who would have had a wonderful career . ’ |
| 24 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 25 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 26 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 27 | The great chamber , we do n't have great chambers now , but sort of the master bedroom , private sitting room , erm would have had a big bed in it . |
| 28 | The door of the back kitchen went down two steps and then there was a chimney corner with shaped stonework , which I think would have had a wooden seat long ago . |
| 29 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 30 | Were perception conceived of differently , it is quite likely that the decision tree would have had a different structure and led to different conclusions . |