Example sentences of "we would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ . |
| 2 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 3 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 4 | As Layton said , ‘ I still regret that we got no encouragement from the CBC , because I think that we would have gone on to write plays . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 6 | The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated . |
| 7 | The greater spread of American higher education means that , proportionate to population , there are far more universities , all with English departments ; if they were as proportionately numerous in Britain , we would have about 1,000 universities . |
| 8 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had known we would have subpoenaed the editor of The Mail on Sunday , Mr Stewart Steven , and if a retrial is granted we will subpoena him and Miss Jones to give evidence . |
| 10 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 11 | ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’ |
| 12 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 13 | If local agencies had chosen to co-operate with police in combating the drugs problem , we would have been delighted . |
| 14 | If we 'd seen loads and loads of Soviet bodies , we would have felt it was true . |
| 15 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 16 | Instead of thousands of offenders , inhumanely contained in Victorian slums , we would have thousands of offenders being punished in the community and confined to their homes . |
| 17 | ‘ We Americans are spoilt , ’ he said , ‘ I doubt whether we would have played in the cold and soaking conditions we had here today . ’ |
| 18 | So you see , in schools like that we would never go uniformed and we would have to discontinue visiting those schools as we would be jeopardizing the children and teachers . |
| 19 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 20 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 21 | So we would have had to leave anyway , in case the cops started taking too close an interest in it . |
| 22 | We would have fished Tony out two or three kilometres down after the water had knocked him around a bit , and given him a dreadful bootful since he was wearing his Lundhags . |
| 23 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 24 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 25 | We would have to go to Alexanderplatz and get the S-Bahn … . ’ |
| 26 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 27 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 28 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |