Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think Jimi would have changed a little bit , though , because he was always into change . |
| 32 | It was thought that anyone subscribing to a newspaper would have to pay a special tax . |
| 33 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 34 | All the indications were that by the end of 1991 the Soviet economy would have registered a severe , possibility catastrophic deterioration . |
| 35 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 36 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 37 | ‘ I am sure the game would have finished a goal-less draw but for that incident . |
| 38 | Given the rambling terms of reference , and the clash of opinion between its members as to how they should be interpreted , the Commission would have faced a bumpy ride at the best of times . |
| 39 | An observer would have seen a raggedy man with his possessions gathered into a couple of carrier bags , his hair uncombed , and no life in his eyes at all . |
| 40 | In Brighton , the Prince Regent 's city , people do not go to bed early , and an observer would have noticed a small group of revellers making its way along the strand to the accompaniment of snatches of song and bursts of loud laughter . |
| 41 | A lesser novelist would have supplied a built-in sneer , to indicate his obvious superiority , but for Wilson the temptation is not even there to be resisted . |
| 42 | In the next few weeks , as the Angevin court moved south from Caen , the tensions came to the surface and in Bertrand de Born the muddle , the bickering and the bitterness would have found a fascinated observer . |
| 43 | A male would have received a conditional discharge or a unit fine . ’ |
| 44 | This joint appeal to fear and hope would have exercised a magnetic potency . |
| 45 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 46 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 47 | Even if an algorithm embodied knowledge that perhaps the training set should be transformed to polar coordinates , still the algorithm would have to search a 2-dimensional continuum of possible centres . |
| 48 | The question that ocurrs here is whether responsibility is deminished because there is a likelyhood that the provokation would have lead a reasonable man to loose his self-control and inflict this grievious harm . |
| 49 | After an abortive attempt to merge with Standard Chartered , whose international network and weak UK base would have provided a good fit , the Midland started |
| 50 | The Haifa Bay route would have constituted a serious disruption as it passed overland through intensively developed urban and farming areas to the Jordan Valley , destroying property and agricultural land . |
| 51 | More frequent change would have produced a counterproductive restlessness . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | All ministries except the Defence Ministry would have to achieve a 3 per cent cut in operating expenses , and old-age pensions in the national insurance scheme would be reduced . |
| 54 | But Alfred was a pharmacist ; would he have chosen such a terrible death when a narcotic drug would have ensured a tranquil wait for the ferryman and a smooth crossing ? |
| 55 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 56 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 57 | When , typically , TCG takes more than 20% of the proceeds of realisation , the investor would have to make a real gain of more than 25% on his new investment just to recoup the tax . |
| 58 | He was not impressed either by the Department 's argu ment that to have revoked the licence would have triggered a dis orderly collapse , allowing the smart money to get out and leaving pen sioners high and dry . |
| 59 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 60 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |