Example sentences of "would have had [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any contemporary wall would have had foundations much deeper . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Barnard 's shop would have had shutters , whilst the pavement-level trapdoor allowed for the delivery of ready-made coffins . |
| 9 | While another woman would have had hysterics all over him because of the rain and his wound , Isabel had had enough presence of mind to realise they could not be followed in such inclement weather . |
| 10 | The doctor had announced that the boy 's mother was dead and that she would have had twins but they had come prematurely because of her lifting something heavy . |
| 11 | Her father would have had words with her about that . |
| 12 | Moran is well-known , nor to say infamous , for outrageous avant-garde works such as an opera scored for 11 dogs , and another one about fascism in which the arriving audience in Frankfurt would have had numbers stamped on its arms , à la Auschwitz , if the piece had not been cancelled . |