Example sentences of "[vb pp] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had disabled people been involved in the planning discussions for the project , perhaps even the main issues addressed would have been very different . |
| 2 | Trying not to let excitement show in my voice I said , ‘ Hold on while I check my diary ’ knowing fine that whatever was committed would have to be re-arranged ! |
| 3 | Committed would have to take place without the DUP or Sinn Fein , representing 29pc of the electorate . |
| 4 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 5 | In any event most ear , nose , and throat departments have a review facility whereby patients whose symptoms had spontaneously resolved would have their operations postponed . |
| 6 | These earlier studies were performed before the recognition of H pylori and most of the patients included would have had the infection . |
| 7 | The cereals grown would have formed the staple of the diet , with wheat , barley , oats and rye all being represented in the archaeological and historical records . |
| 8 | The cereals grown would have been taken down the long lane to the water mill to be ground for flour , whilst vegetables , poultry and perhaps pigs would have been raised in the crofts behind each farmstead in the village street . |
| 9 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 10 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 11 | Oh , was not this delightful , to hurt again the girl who had rejected him , the girl who when all was said and done would have been a greater prize than the vulgar woman he had married for her money ? |
| 12 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 13 | However this was not a material irregularity ; the Court had heard the tape and had the jury done so , it would have confirmed their views , expressed in the verdict of guilty , because they would have heard the gruff , bass voice of the appellant , as described by the victim in his evidence , and any lingering hesitation they might have felt would have been dispelled . |
| 14 | Most people if their dog had nearly got shot would have gone , cleared off , but not him . |
| 15 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 16 | Although it may be all right for the spokesman for the Opposition to talk about taking no measures , surely from all parts of the Province there is a cry for a security policy now to carry out what his own colleagues said would have to be done : to extirpate the IRA ? |
| 17 | Nothing John Smith as leader of the Opposition attack could have said would have been as damaging as the bitter words of Norman Lamont , speaking with all the knowledge and authority of a former key member of the Government . |
| 18 | To continue without a far more searching analysis than had so far been made would have been the height of folly . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , there is an unquestioned assumption that the pupils selected would have no difficulty in following a grammar-school course . |
| 20 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |
| 21 | My reply is that , to me , being cheated would have meant not being able to hold my beautiful son , Sam in my arms after nine months . |
| 22 | ‘ What seemed so hard at the beginning was the limitation that calling her Down 's and handicapped would have on her new life . |
| 23 | As the dance continued , some of them began to snap their limbs about with convulsive movements that Ace would have thought would have dislocated those limbs in an instant . |
| 24 | I mean the one department you would have thought would have been enough . |
| 25 | Because the data , you see , the two lines , I would have thought would have been recorded |
| 26 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |
| 27 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 28 | To have agreed would have meant addressing the question of a return to political pluralism , an idea which was anathema to the Caudillo . |
| 29 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 30 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |