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

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1 Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it .
2 This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire .
3 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
4 A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading .
5 Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know .
6 However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect .
7 An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents .
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