Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was only about a minute of the game gone and I dare say er Ian whose place he 's taking on that left-hand side would have relished that kind of opportunity . |
| 2 | But the seats that Common Wealth began to win were often seats which Labour would have stood little chance of winning even under the most favourable conditions . |
| 3 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 4 | More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land . |
| 5 | Gurder would have understood this sort of thing . |
| 6 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 7 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 8 | Since incorporation would have required parliamentary approval , and alignment not much less , the scheme was impractical , but it was typical of the man . |
| 9 | Mr Tony Brighton , the TGWU 's representative at RAF Stafford , said : ‘ We can not say whether the presence of the RAF ambulance would have made any difference to saving a life , but there was delay . ’ |
| 10 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 11 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
| 12 | Applying the but for test would have produced this result . |
| 13 | A butterfly would have exerted more pressure alighting on a flower petal . |
| 14 | But the Chancellor would have drawn considerable heart for his important speech . |
| 15 | This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school . |
| 16 | The conditions of the farm-workers during the 1890s made gleaning essential : a loss of the gleaned corn would have meant actual hunger to many a farm-worker 's family during the ensuing year . |
| 17 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 18 | In common cause against the elements , each rural community would have mobilized collective effort when planting and harvesting rice , or constructing irrigation systems . |
| 19 | Secondly , there is no reason why the vendor should receive payment from the purchaser for the debtors earlier than the vendor would have received such payment from the debtors themselves . |
| 20 | Despite the large size of the Shroud , removal of the area of cloth needed for normal radiocarbon dating would have inflicted unacceptable damage . |
| 21 | I would have thought that anyone with the most elementary grasp of relative importance would have decided that priority should be accorded to a female child done to death by some scoundrel . ’ |
| 22 | So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more . |
| 23 | So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more . |
| 24 | ‘ Because of all that 's happened , ’ she says , such a move would have to come one step at a time . |
| 25 | The construction of the Stroudwater Canal would have stopped this practice ( which cost them nothing ! ) and forced them to pay tolls on any goods transported . |
| 26 | A ‘ revolutionary committee ’ of barons seemed about to take control of the central government : the forest would have had short shrift from them . |
| 27 | Then the band would have to pay more tax than would otherwise be necessary . |
| 28 | A boycott would have hit Austrian road and dam projects in Asia . |
| 29 | His bomb would have caused enormous damage and more importantly , could have killed anyone in the area . |
| 30 | The government would have more to spend , at the same time as real output would have risen offsetting unemployment . |