Example sentences of "[det] would have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She had clearly by various decree created a force majeure over mineral workings and whilst at the time this would have appeared an admirable standing , nevertheless the monopoly began to serve , in later years , as a disincentive to exploration and development . |
2 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
3 | If we had had something similar before , this would have revealed the full extent of our Director 's motoring convictions . |
4 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
5 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
6 | This would have excluded the whole ecclesiastical section of landholding society from the ordinary complex of feudal relationships , and in doing this , it would have threatened the cohesion of a kingdom in a way that no earlier reforming decree had done . |
7 | But , while this would have brought the Tory rebels back on board , it would have left a big question mark over whether Mr Major could continue . |
8 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
9 | At the actual erm meeting which put this into practice the Conservatives suggested a phased in method , some now and some later , and this would have relieved a certain amount of hardship . |
10 | The Research Councils , and other funding bodies , who have rated the research proposals of potential Ph D candidates highly in competition with many others , have not as yet insisted upon the communication of research results by publication , although this would have provided an objective assessment of the worth of the research . |
11 | If wages per head had not increased , the share of GDP accounted for by consumption out of wage earnings would have fallen from 52 per cent in 1952 to 31 per cent in 1970 ; this would have required an inconceivable rise in other types of spending ( by capitalists and government ) if the increase in production was to be sold . |
12 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
13 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |
14 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
15 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
16 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
17 | Martha Levy , too , was happy in what many would have found an unenviable situation . |
18 | Mmmn , that would have to include an away win . |
19 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
20 | ‘ Yes , I suppose that would have irritated a Socialist Republican Feminist like you . ’ |
21 | That would have covered the basic facts . |
22 | But there was something in her gaze , some power of kindness and peace , that would have stilled the very sky itself of stormy winds and rain . |
23 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |