Example sentences of "it would have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
| 2 | If our Lord had been resurrected only as a spirit it would have signified a victory over the spiritual world but the fact that it was a physical resurrection shows his sovereignty over history and the created world . |
| 3 | ‘ Quite right , sugar-plum , ’ Mr Wormwood said , casting a look of such simpering sloppiness at his wife it would have made a cat sick . |
| 4 | Not , in truth , that she expected any , important or otherwise , but it would have made a difference to the day . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have made a difference in the disposition of that part of the estate which had n't been given away . |
| 6 | More than that , it would have constituted a breach of rules of respect for elders , a denial of social hierarchy inculcated throughout infancy , boyhood , schooldays . |
| 7 | He badly wanted to believe he had beaten FAKINTIL — it would have eased a move into their crony politics for him . |
| 8 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 9 | It would have saved a lot of unnecessary antagonism . ’ |
| 10 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 11 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
| 12 | In its original form , it would have involved a cost to the British taxpayer , to the Government and to employers of up to £500 million . |
| 13 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 14 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 15 | It would have assumed a place similar to that of the forerunners of the churches and chapels of historic times . |
| 16 | ‘ All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Had the airplane crashed into the mountain , it would have cut a swath through the trees . |
| 18 | We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance . |
| 19 | His excellency crossed the floor of room B. It was n't a particularly interesting room and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all , had the Anti-Rex not chosen to enter it . |
| 20 | It was n't a particularly interesting café and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all had … do you ever get that strange feeling of déjà vu ? |
| 21 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 22 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 23 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 24 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 25 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 26 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 27 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 28 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 29 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 30 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |