Example sentences of "[noun] would [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As president of the company , Branson would not have a seat on the board .
2 Thus if the confidential information was published in full detail then the initial recipient would not have a head start .
3 At a general meeting of Darlington Rugby Club some members voiced concern to the committee that the club would not have a ground on which to play home matches next season .
4 Surely a storekeeper in this barbarous place would n't have a vocabulary like that ?
5 Anyone investing £1,000 in the average investment trust just after the second world war would now have a holding worth well over Pounds 250,000 .
6 ‘ But on the whole I 'm an autodidact , ’ said Constance , fairly confident that Clarissa would n't have a clue what she meant by this .
7 Under the electoral system of 1918 , the Unionists had a minimum vote of at least 38 per cent of the electorate , and this would bring at least 250 seats in a parliament of 615 ; in a political world of three parties this almost guaranteed that no other party would govern alone and that the Unionists would usually have a majority .
8 The position is now somewhat alleviated by the case of Rowlands ( Mark ) Ltd v Berni Inns Ltd [ 1985 ] QB 211 where it was held that the intention of the parties to the lease was that the landlord 's claim would be against the insurers under the insurance policy and that the landlord would not have a claim against the tenant for breach of covenant , to the effect that there was no claim to which the insurers could be subrogated .
9 ‘ Apparently so and if that 's proved then Len would n't have a hope in hell of bringing a case . ’
10 ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me .
11 Even before his accident it seemed doubtful that my aunt would ever have a child of her own .
12 To all intents and purposes the parish would still have a vicar but he can not refuse to move elsewhere , ’ she said .
13 If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home .
14 It seemed the prince would not have a witness influenced , even by his own daughter .
15 I told her I thought The Times would probably have a man on the spot and it was late , and I prised my Toshiba away from her grasping hands .
16 Dadda would n't have a phone extension upstairs , preferring to summon him with a shout when it rang .
17 The table is built up by calculating p(0) , and hence the probability that any given address would not have a home record allocated to it .
18 Indeed , the firm would normally have a UK office and so would not be an overseas person .
19 Men would n't have a clue !
20 At one stage , Fields had threatened to pull out of the arrangement altogether and find a new partner , until the CAA made it clear that Fields would not have a licence without Virgin 's involvement .
21 Families who would otherwise spend Christmas in bed-and-breakfast accommodation would then have a house to live in .
22 Wives whose husbands earned a regular wage would usually have a copper in which to heat water for washing , and by 1914 , a mangle .
23 He believed that the company would soon have a network of debt surveillance collectors throughout Europe .
24 I guessed that London would still have a wealth of old architecture .
25 I guessed that London would still have a wealth of old architecture .
26 Each unit would also have a credit value based on its notional design length and , in addition , the centrally devised units would in some cases have guidance on curriculum content and context , appropriate teaching and learning strategies and assessment procedures and instruments .
27 Under PR , the trade unions would still have a stranglehold over industrial policy , education would still be in the grip of local authorities and any proposals for effective tax cuts would have been quietly shelved .
28 If the West had not reacted , Saddam Hussein 's brutal regime would now have a stranglehold on the oil of Saudi Arabia thus holding us all to ransom .
29 She felt her mother would surely have a heart attack if she knew .
30 This was dated 11 June 1747 and was for Tilberthwaite , with a requirement that Sir John would also have a key of the mine storehouse , with free access .
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