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 | If it was merely a technical matter , personal computers would have meant increased autonomy for office workers just as Apple 's founders predicted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the mid-sixties , you see , a large proportion of homes would have got fitted carpeting throughout , so there 's that kind of difference . |
| 8 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 9 | But under contracting regulations , companies would have to match current pay and conditions and may be deterred from taking on Westminster employees . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , a few of the errors would have produced new macromolecules that were even better at reproducing themselves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ’ … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime . |
| 18 | However , although 80 per cent of the managers surveyed belonged to tied societies , 45 per cent said they believed their customers would have preferred independent advice . |
| 19 | For the producers of material X , for example , although not currently selling X to exporting firms , can argue that , if they were not supplying firms that sell only on the home market , those firms would have to buy imported supplies of X , and that , if the firms that now supply X to exporting firms were unable to do so , they would be able to take their place . |
| 20 | Patros would have to become Prime Minister , too , so that we could be sure that the money would be repaid . |
| 21 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 22 | Since the citation counts here refer only to the thesis itself , and not to derived publications , this particular difficulty has not been encountered , but a citation count on derived publications would have given inaccurate results , as shown in the earlier discussion on joint publication of papers related to research topics . |
| 23 | We can not completely rule out that treatment outcome would have been better if all patients would have received continued care and reinforcement by the investigator , but our study showed that there was no correlation between the number of visits to the Encopresis Clinic and treatment outcome ( p>0.1 ) . |
| 24 | Not all of these widows would have had dependent children of course , but a significant proportion must have done as there were 460 children under 14 in the 403 households in this group . |
| 25 | Small isolated communities would have been extremely vulnerable if crops failed and , in such circumstances , alliances with neighbouring groups would have assumed great importance when food was required in emergencies . |
| 26 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 27 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 28 | According to the Treaty , non-signatories would have to pay hard currency for their imports from the new Soviet Union . |
| 29 | As a magazine article , any one of these chapters would have made good reading . |
| 30 | We now know that major eruptions are commonly preceded by seismic activity , and these shocks would have provided ample warning of the forthcoming eruption , had anyone been aware of their significance . |