Example sentences of "[pron] would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 32 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |
| 33 | Taking my situation instanced earlier , the event ( of a cheque which would have caused a negative balance ) and its context ( a good credit history over 20 years , small mortgage in relation to the property value and an otherwise steady income ) could have been exploited as clear marketing opportunities . |
| 34 | Even broken sets can fetch large sums , and a complete bound run is likely to cost the buyer anything up to £4,000 , which would have gone a long way to paying Ackermann 's army of workmen . |
| 35 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 36 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Carol and Mark were ever loyal and proud of their mother , while Denis had a role which would have dismayed a weaker man . |
| 39 | The return flight was made via Horta in the Azores due to not having a Maia-assisted take-off , which would have allowed a heavier fuel load . |
| 40 | This meant further discontent on the part of the workers and peasants , which would have meant a greater use of coercion by the state . |
| 41 | Short lengths of other internal streets have been identified but it is clear that , even though they intersect most often at right angles , there was no regular gridded system One strange omission is the absence of a street running down the west side of the supposed forum , which would have linked a known street further north with that running between the two military compounds . |
| 42 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 43 | It was because she knew that before the month was out she would have said a permanent goodbye to him that she was greedy to spend as much time with him as she could now . |
| 44 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 45 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 46 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 47 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 48 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 49 | Today , when she went for Lin Foh , she would have to find a firmer resolve . |
| 50 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 51 | If Fen had n't returned by morning she would have to pack a few essentials , lock up the boat and make her way back to Little Kirkton by public transport , and Fen would have achieved his objective — to be rid of her . |
| 52 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 53 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 54 | She would have to have a stern talk with Debbie about including extraneous information instead of plain hard fact . |
| 55 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |
| 56 | ONE by one , the people who would have governed a post-apartheid South Africa have been selected for murder . |
| 57 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
| 58 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 59 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 60 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |