Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted on 1 November that in the future the United States would have to walk a tightrope between the newly independent states and the old colonial powers . |
| 2 | Lady Eleanor would have opened the door to her Prioress . |
| 3 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 4 | And here , in this chapter , I have placed an illustration ( Figure 1 ) — how Paley would have loved the electron microscope ! — of an eye together with two successive " zoomings in " on detailed portions . |
| 5 | Beeny and Wetherall would have to share the blame , but there was no glaring mistakes . |
| 6 | If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer . |
| 7 | However , under outcomes ( a ) or ( b ) , someone other than McAlpine would have to initiate the action ( see Scenario 2 ) . |
| 8 | There had been a strong possibility that the Newleys would have turned the security locks as well . |
| 9 | Most surely , the Webbs would have seen the omission of the industries of the public sector from the Committee 's terms of reference as evidence of the flaw in them . |
| 10 | ‘ Bold , not to negotiate with the nationalists ; as the outrage was felt exclusively by the Dutch it is doubtful whether Mountbatten would have resented the description . |
| 11 | Ivy would have enjoyed the peaches , but not the letters . |
| 12 | In the latter case the Bank of England would have to hold a gold reserve to meet the demand of foreigners who wanted to convert sterling into gold . |
| 13 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 14 | If that kind of thing had happened very often , Athens would have lost the war much sooner than she did . |
| 15 | There were small stock-piles of tear gas in the prison to be used in the event of riots or large scale disturbances and Nicholson would have had no compunction about using them . |
| 16 | Denis Brockewell was asked if Kim would have used the knife in this way . |
| 17 | Almost any ruler other than Haile Selassie would have confirmed the sentence of death passed on him for treason by the high court , but the Emperor was content to fine him heavily and imprison him . |
| 18 | Ten years later , 324 extra Tory votes in Caernarvon , Sowerby and Stockport North would have meant no Lib-Lab pact . |
| 19 | Does she really think that Edward Heath would have got the connivance of the Foreign Office or the government , without it being sorted out beforehand ? |
| 20 | In Susanna Jennens Leapor would have found a woman able to fend for herself in adversity . |
| 21 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 22 | Without the promise , it must be doubtful whether Ibstock would have held the dividend . |
| 23 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
| 24 | In this instance the foul play was the deliberate knock-down , and Derek had to be sure that Rory would have caught the ball and that no Australian would have legally prevented him scoring a try . |
| 25 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 26 | Hans would have had an answer to the current predicament . |
| 27 | For British cruise missiles , the US Air Force 's 7555th Theater Mission Planning Squadron at High Wycombe would have provided the data from four sources . |
| 28 | ‘ Even the Gestapo would have admired the techniques employed to wring confessions , ’ the group says . |
| 29 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 30 | Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular . |