Example sentences of "would have had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 2 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 3 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 4 | Uderzo says they preferred not to film in America : ‘ They would have had a very different idea of how to approach the jokes . |
| 5 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 6 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 8 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 9 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 10 | She would have had a sort of power over him . |
| 11 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 12 | If we did n't do what was done at Castlewellan we would have had a complete sell out . ’ |
| 13 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |
| 14 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 15 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
| 16 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 17 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 18 | Had this proposal been implemented , it would have had a disastrous effect on the morale and effectiveness of L Detachment . |
| 19 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 20 | He knew Carmella would have had a fit had she seen it . |
| 21 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 22 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 23 | Mary would have had a blue fit if she had known about Ethel Ramsden 's adventure : |
| 24 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 25 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 26 | If effort had counted for anything , we would have had a family of Catholic proportions . |
| 27 | So important , in fact , that such a cloud would have had a braking effect on the Sun 's spin over aeons of time . |
| 28 | A planet with a small mass , midway between Earth and Mars , would have had a low gravity and a thin atmosphere . |
| 29 | The wing would have had a tendency to turn left in flight unless the change had been made ( incorrectly ) to counteract an inherent right turn . |
| 30 | Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . |