Example sentences of "[det] would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Japan had few reserves to continue the struggle , though to have admitted this would have courted political disaster . |
| 3 | This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies . |
| 4 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 5 | Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples . |
| 6 | This would have commanded high interest rates but these might , on precedent , have been subsequently lowered . |
| 7 | This would have brought more people out into the corridors and foyers . |
| 8 | This would have avoided all discussion of the succession . |
| 9 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 10 | This would have encouraged chemical interaction between the gases of the Earth 's early atmosphere to form organic molecules — although , to be sure , it would also have tended to break those molecules apart once they had formed ! |
| 11 | Lubin comments that ‘ Shyness probably made concrete political action impossible , for this would have required direct action with other people . |
| 12 | This would have left many people with worthless claims against insolvent companies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even this would have demanded more water than could be afforded . |
| 15 | Perceptions such as these would have affected general conduct and attitude . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All would have provided suitable topics . |
| 18 | Each would have specified permitted levels of chemical and other pollutants and target levels of oxygen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That would have given three X squared Well that 's |
| 21 | Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp taking part . |
| 22 | Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp taking part . |
| 23 | 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 . |