Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich .
2 Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting .
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 Since incorporation would have required parliamentary approval , and alignment not much less , the scheme was impractical , but it was typical of the man .
6 The proposal would have restricted nuclear weapons at sea to strategic missile submarines .
7 In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own .
8 The problem is that Sun would have to make fundamental changes to Solaris if USL 's Unix SVR4.2 interface specifications are adopted in the new RoadMap .
9 But the Chancellor would have drawn considerable heart for his important speech .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 In common cause against the elements , each rural community would have mobilized collective effort when planting and harvesting rice , or constructing irrigation systems .
13 Despite the large size of the Shroud , removal of the area of cloth needed for normal radiocarbon dating would have inflicted unacceptable damage .
14 So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more .
15 So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more .
16 A ‘ revolutionary committee ’ of barons seemed about to take control of the central government : the forest would have had short shrift from them .
17 A boycott would have hit Austrian road and dam projects in Asia .
18 His bomb would have caused enormous damage and more importantly , could have killed anyone in the area .
19 The government would have more to spend , at the same time as real output would have risen offsetting unemployment .
20 Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement .
21 In Ramsay Street the transformation would have set title-tattling tongues working overtime for months .
22 An inverted-U relationship would have predicted different magnitudes and directions of correlation for different risk levels .
23 He also felt that the level of PCBs required to kill a dolphin would have affected other species also .
24 Had the two been at their prime in the same era Scotland 's midfield would have made Dirty Harry look like a wimp .
25 If it were not for the hollow bones the 30-ton creature would have required inordinate amounts of energy , and thus more food , to move around .
26 People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released .
27 Any new operation setting up in the architecturally acclaimed building would have to satisfy strict planning constraints , however .
28 Such vandalism would have required periodic repairs , and it was during one such overhaul in the 1860s that the window shutters were replaced .
29 Like Braid , the name of Vardon would have stirred local followers of the game .
30 Her hair would have got blonde streaks in it from the sun .
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