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

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1 The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying .
2 This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies .
3 Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples .
4 This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force .
5 This would have left visuo-spatial functions intact in the right whereas in women language could have become established in both hemispheres , crowding most specialised visuo-spatial ability .
6 These would have contained garden-like areas for growing vegetables , herbs for flavouring , dyes and medicines , fruit trees and space for hives — honey being an important commodity and mentioned as goods rendered from some estates .
7 All would have provided suitable topics .
8 Each would have specified permitted levels of chemical and other pollutants and target levels of oxygen .
9 The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants .
10 He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room .
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