Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 2 | ‘ That opinion was largely based on the fact that in Robin Cook , Labour would have boasted a senior Cabinet minister with good understanding and enthusiasm for racing . |
| 3 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 4 | Price Waterhouse 's UK practice would have experienced a negative growth rate in fee income in the year to June 1992 , if it had not been for the firm 's corporate recovery arm . |
| 5 | It 's improbable that a male college would have achieved a similar effect with men or women . |
| 6 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 7 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 8 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 9 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 10 | A doctor would have a defence of therapeutic privilege , if disclosure would have posed a serious threat of psychological detriment to the patient . |
| 11 | Presenting the seventh development plan ( 1991-97 ) to the National Assembly on Nov. 19 , Masire said that he expected a slowdown in revenue in the coming period and that the private sector would have to play a greater role in diversifying the economy and reducing the dependence on mineral exports . |
| 12 | The Warsaw pact would have to find a new home for its southern command , a small price . |
| 13 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 14 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 15 | Ideally the research team would have liked a randomised control experimental design whereby half the eligible people would have been allocated to the action group and the remainder to the control group on a random basis . |
| 16 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 17 | However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose . |
| 18 | An additional requirement is that each industrial site would have to publish a yearly environmental statement which would be open to public scrutiny . |
| 19 | ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection . |
| 20 | Visits to Dunfermline became holy days , later corrupted to holidays , and the town would have resembled a teeming holiday camp , says Mr Putter , with bed and breakfast the biggest industry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I dismissed this concept because the seriality of placement would have imposed a formal composition on the hall isolating the installation from the conditions and functions of the architecture . |
| 23 | It went on : ‘ Both parties regret that this is the case , as a successful outcome would have created a new and unique financial services group . |
| 24 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 25 | Such substantial stratospheric ozone depletion would last for several years and the initial survivors of a nuclear war would have to face a great increase in biologically active UV-B radiation . |
| 26 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 27 | Since these are questions of fact a decision-maker would have to make a full contextual analysis before reaching a decision . |
| 28 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 29 | If a Labour Prime Minister had died or retired whilst in office the Parliamentary Party election procedure would have produced a new leader . |
| 30 | Were perception conceived of differently , it is quite likely that the decision tree would have had a different structure and led to different conclusions . |