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

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1 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 .
2 At that speed , pedestrians would have had seven seconds from the time the train came into view until it reached the crossing .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 We may suspect that if Polybius had done his job properly modern scholars would have had less difficulty in finding a way into the Roman mind .
6 The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle !
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