Example sentences of "would have had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Any contemporary wall would have had foundations much deeper .
2 If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions .
3 if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions .
4 Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today .
5 After a public haranguing from Atkinson at Highfield Road , the manager adopted a ploy which would have had Ferguson spluttering into his orange juice .
6 She doubted it , or else her mother would have had help .
7 His smile would have had Daisy weak at the knees .
8 Had West Bank society been industrialized , with the social transformation this implies , the Israelis would have had difficulty preventing these mayors from producing a united national leadership .
9 He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’
10 Dennis was thrashing about so vigorously that even a trained lifeguard would have had difficulty in retrieving him .
11 This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent .
12 In the state it was , the landlord would have had difficulty in finding respectable tenants and was happy to let it out — at a fairly stiff rent — to youngsters .
13 The Company was not well organized , but even a strong company would have had difficulty resisting the attacks of the Dutch — now at the height of their power — on its forts in West Africa , which began before war had been declared in Europe .
14 So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing .
15 Eva would have had difficulty holding the reins , even for such a short time , without wanting to give them a short , sharp jerk occasionally .
16 A key figure for this last task was the archbishop of Canterbury , but not all were as reliable or as effective on the king 's behalf as Sudbury proved to be : Islip ( 1349–66 ) had not secured the sexennial grant requested in 1356 , although probably even Sudbury would have had problems with such an extreme proposal ; and after Sudbury , Courtenay ( 1381–96 ) was not always obliging .
17 Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little , she thought wryly .
18 She would have had publicity then ? ’
19 Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling .
20 Yet many would have had Allen marked down as a real contender .
21 She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar .
22 The social services would have had powers to protect not only the injured party ( even without evidence that could be proven in court ) , but also all the other children , probably by their removal from the home .
23 Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer .
24 Cocker 's scepticism was not typical of the sentiments expressed on that day : Ald. McNaughtan , the Tramway Committee Chairman , in laying the first rail said that Blackpool 's delay in constructing a tramway was fortuitous , otherwise they would have had horses or steam , ‘ instead of nature 's more wonderful , immense and mysterious agency — electricity ’ .
25 It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none .
26 Canton , Massachusetts-based Perception Technology Corp has agreed to be acquired by Brite Voice Systems Inc of Wichita , Kansas for about 3.35m new Brite Voice shares giving an indicated value of about $15.9m ; the combined companies would have had revenues in excess of $35m on a pro forma basis for fiscal 1992 .
27 Barnard 's shop would have had shutters , whilst the pavement-level trapdoor allowed for the delivery of ready-made coffins .
28 But if the way he treated Professor Liawski was anything to go by , I bet his mother would have had trouble finding something good to say about him .
29 In fact he would have had trouble recalling his own name .
30 The simple truth was that in any case , few such poor families would have had cash that they could have regularly given away .
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