Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 2 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 3 | I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant . |
| 4 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 5 | He himself had gone to University College , Oxford , so he thought I should apply there , because I would have a greater chance of getting in . |
| 6 | And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly . |
| 7 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 8 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 9 | She would have a new dress for Sundays , which next year became an afternoon dress , and the next was worn in the mornings for doing her housework . |
| 10 | She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 12 | She would have a good chance of sneaking out unnoticed by then . |
| 13 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 14 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 15 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 16 | During her romance she had regularly raided her friends ' wardrobes so that she would have a presentable outfit to go out in . |
| 17 | She had a sudden feeling that if she could only work out how the ecology of Moloch ticked , she would have a vital clue , if not to discovering Ace 's whereabouts , then at least to getting a handle on the vanished aliens . |
| 18 | Again , if she could trade in a small part of the total value of the child benefit accruing to her , she would have a sizeable sum to present as a down-payment on a house . |
| 19 | She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image . |
| 20 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 21 | She would have a miserable life , of course . |
| 22 | If the Iraqis oppose the landing in contravention of the latest U N Security Council resolution demanding re-supply of diplomats , then the official said you would have a classic pretext for war . |
| 23 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 24 | And you would actually , in a facial , you would have a facial massage with aromatherapy oils and that 's very relaxing , that 's very nice . |
| 25 | Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ? |
| 26 | You , you would go , you would have a certain amount of information already in that |
| 27 | You can not buy an office copier in Eastern Europe because if you could you would have a free press . ’ |
| 28 | If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent . |
| 29 | That way you would have a little bit of each , and you would get the variety of shape and landscape you want . " |
| 30 | Mr Jaggers himself told you you would have a large fortune , did n't he ? |