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

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1 Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ?
2 Had I applied earlier … but then perhaps I 'd have stood very little chance , but at least I 'd have had interviews .
3 It 's for sure that he 'd have had respect for the course .
4 If we 'd have had X greater than or equal to zero , right ?
5 She was after everything in trousers , young or old , she 'd have had Mr Pepper in the end , you mark my words , and then what 'd happen to the Company ?
6 Any contemporary wall would have had foundations much deeper .
7 If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions .
8 if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions .
9 Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today .
10 After a public haranguing from Atkinson at Highfield Road , the manager adopted a ploy which would have had Ferguson spluttering into his orange juice .
11 She doubted it , or else her mother would have had help .
12 His smile would have had Daisy weak at the knees .
13 Had West Bank society been industrialized , with the social transformation this implies , the Israelis would have had difficulty preventing these mayors from producing a united national leadership .
14 He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’
15 Dennis was thrashing about so vigorously that even a trained lifeguard would have had difficulty in retrieving him .
16 This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent .
17 In the state it was , the landlord would have had difficulty in finding respectable tenants and was happy to let it out — at a fairly stiff rent — to youngsters .
18 The Company was not well organized , but even a strong company would have had difficulty resisting the attacks of the Dutch — now at the height of their power — on its forts in West Africa , which began before war had been declared in Europe .
19 So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing .
20 Eva would have had difficulty holding the reins , even for such a short time , without wanting to give them a short , sharp jerk occasionally .
21 A key figure for this last task was the archbishop of Canterbury , but not all were as reliable or as effective on the king 's behalf as Sudbury proved to be : Islip ( 1349–66 ) had not secured the sexennial grant requested in 1356 , although probably even Sudbury would have had problems with such an extreme proposal ; and after Sudbury , Courtenay ( 1381–96 ) was not always obliging .
22 Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little , she thought wryly .
23 She would have had publicity then ? ’
24 Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling .
25 Yet many would have had Allen marked down as a real contender .
26 She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar .
27 The social services would have had powers to protect not only the injured party ( even without evidence that could be proven in court ) , but also all the other children , probably by their removal from the home .
28 Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer .
29 Cocker 's scepticism was not typical of the sentiments expressed on that day : Ald. McNaughtan , the Tramway Committee Chairman , in laying the first rail said that Blackpool 's delay in constructing a tramway was fortuitous , otherwise they would have had horses or steam , ‘ instead of nature 's more wonderful , immense and mysterious agency — electricity ’ .
30 It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none .
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