Example sentences of "[coord] would have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This penal arrangement came into effect from 2 June and would have cost the clearing banks about £150,000 per week as a result of the lost interest .
2 These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull .
3 She was always impressed by his fame and would have liked a theatrical career .
4 The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers .
5 In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons .
6 She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant .
7 We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) .
8 I would have been its curator , and would have had the top floor to myself ’ .
9 The women in the ranks were generally accustomed to hard manual labour with scythes and ploughs and would have had the physical strength and tenacity to wield weapons .
10 However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range .
11 He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats .
12 Slivers of black burnt onion , petrified bacon rinds , lacy brown scraps of fried eggs and scores of other morsels from tomatoes , sausages , steaks , chops , liver , potatoes , bread and baked beans here lay cheek by jowl , and would have afforded a rich reward to anyone interested in Mr Piggott 's diet over the past year .
13 This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did .
14 This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force .
15 Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations .
16 Under the given conditions , changes of cholinesterase activity would have been demonstrable long before reaching a danger level , and would have provided an early warning .
17 It also claimed that the revenue generated from the industry had provided Nauru with " the highest per capita income in the world and would have allowed the Nauruan government to rehabilitate the mined areas if it so wished . "
18 Conventional economic analysis would have pointed to the opposite policy , but would have ignored the human factor in making a complete system work .
19 Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene .
20 The Danish Prime Minister , Mr Poul Schluter , insisted that the future union could not be restricted to purely monetary issues but would have to involve an increasing convergence of economic policies and objectives for growth , inflation , and employment .
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