Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 2 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 3 | Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools . |
| 4 | If it was merely a technical matter , personal computers would have meant increased autonomy for office workers just as Apple 's founders predicted . |
| 5 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 6 | Despite the small scale of production the craftsmen would have needed considerable knowledge and skill to accumulate the equipment and materials to produce these brooches . |
| 7 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 8 | There being 3,813 papers showing a second preference for Craig in our North Antrim constituency , the formula would have given him ( 5,626 + 14,533 ) x 3,813 = 1,476 additional votes , and other candidates would have received additional votes similarly calculated . |
| 9 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |
| 10 | By the mid-sixties , you see , a large proportion of homes would have got fitted carpeting throughout , so there 's that kind of difference . |
| 11 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 12 | Kids would have made more mess . |
| 13 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 14 | This would mean in effect that the privately owned operating companies would have to shoulder all research and development , waste disposal and decommissioning costs . |
| 15 | So expectations have been high , and companies would have felt some concern about the possible consequences of crossing the panel . |
| 16 | But under contracting regulations , companies would have to match current pay and conditions and may be deterred from taking on Westminster employees . |
| 17 | Had such an option been granted to the Danes , other countries would have demanded similar privileges , and the dream of creating a unitary European state would have become unattainable . |
| 18 | Contractors would have to employ more people . |
| 19 | The climate extremes suggested by the physical models would have rendered southern Africa inhospitable for both animal and plant life , yet fossils of the most diverse and prolific terrestrial vertebrates , the mammal-like reptiles dicynodonts , are found in South Africa , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi and Tanzania . |
| 20 | They say belts would have prevented any injuries in wales … |
| 21 | However , a few of the errors would have produced new macromolecules that were even better at reproducing themselves . |
| 22 | But thanks to their 28 victories in the constituencies the Conservatives would have had nine seats ( 28 minus 19 ) too many , whilst from the pool of ten additional seats it would have been impossible to furnish both the nine additional seats due to Labour ( 11 minus two won in constituencies ) and the ten additional seats owing to the Liberals . |
| 23 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 24 | First he shows how , in the successive volumes compiled under the generic title of ‘ Primer ’ , composers would have found whole psalms located in contexts able to suggest the composition of the psalm-motet not chronologically in succession to , but simultaneously with , the votive antiphon . |
| 25 | He added that few of America 's allies would have supported military action in Indo-China , and he believed that since the United States could not run the free world by itself a reappraisal of its policies was necessary to retain allied support . |
| 26 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 27 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 28 | At that speed , pedestrians would have had seven seconds from the time the train came into view until it reached the crossing . |
| 29 | The tsar improved the Ministry of Finances ' chances of introducing economies by ordering that state agencies would have to prepare detailed estimates of their future expenditure . |
| 30 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |