Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 2 | Oil industry officials said that Mexico would have to import some petrol products until a new 300,000 bpd plant was completed . |
| 3 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 4 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ Agnes Poley would have understood that atmosphere too . |
| 6 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 7 | She hoped for a reply , but dared not hope too much ; she imagined that the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt would have had many replies and perhaps ladies with experience would be far more preferable to a young comparatively inexperienced girl like her . |
| 8 | The assumption underlying Bismarck 's diplomacy in the 1880s , that given her conflict with Austria-Hungary over the Balkans Russia would have to accept German terms to avoid diplomatic isolation , proved unfounded . |
| 9 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 10 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
| 11 | And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes . |
| 12 | A medieval visitor to Cambridge would have passed twelve churches as he walked through the town , roughly a hundred yards apart over a stretch of a mile ; and Cambridge was a very modest town . |
| 13 | Brooking , Devonshire or Dickens would have rendered useless Leeds 's tedious offside trap by the simple expedient of running through from deep with the ball . |
| 14 | One would have thought Willi would have drummed some kind of graciousness into him . |
| 15 | Hayling explained further that if the GLC was going to support the venture , Walsh would have to get some newspaper professionals — or at least semi-professionals — involved , including , of course , Ben Lowe . |
| 16 | Surely , in a different generation , John Jackson would have gained more honours than his single appearance for the Football League . |
| 17 | If Pinewood studios had been in need of a resident historian — and the days of historical dramas emanating from that studio seemed themselves to have been consigned to history-Kenneth Williams would have fulfilled that role . |
| 18 | Frank played left midfielder/winger in a 4–5-1 formation ( with Jostein Flo from Sheff.Utd. at the right flank and debutant Geir Frigard from Kongsvinger , Norway , as the striker ) and did well , even though ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen would have wanted more movement off the ball from him . |
| 19 | Oliver would have had more sense and initiative . |
| 20 | One would have assumed that as two classicists , Punch contributors and men of letters of an old-fashioned Christian temper , Lewis and Knox would have known each other for years . |
| 21 | I should hope that anyone of lesser climbing ability that Mr Lee would have taken one look at the gully and decided that conditions were unfavourable . |
| 22 | As Punch would have said many years ago , ‘ collapse of Stout Party ’ . |
| 23 | One of these hours , Yggdrasil would have to change some laws . |
| 24 | It was very possibly from that actual spring that Mary would have made daily journeys to fetch water . |
| 25 | Tennyson would have frequented this lane in his youth for he liked to visit the Woodman 's cottage which nestles beside a wood and has an astonishingly colourful cottage garden . |
| 26 | In Barcelona , Eric Liddell would have to run two rounds of the 200m , followed by the semi-final and the final the next day . |
| 27 | Carmen would have made short work of Michael too . |
| 28 | It is a conclusion about an almost psychiatric effect ( and comfort ) offered by serious drama which Aristotle would have had much sympathy with . |
| 29 | Anne would have had good use for a machete . |
| 30 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |