Example sentences of "it would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 2 | Quite possibly , it would have made little difference . |
| 3 | If he allowed them to know he understood German , it would have made little difference . |
| 4 | It would have made little difference , however . |
| 5 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 6 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 7 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 8 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 9 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 10 | If she 'd been forty , I doubt if it would have made any difference — to either of us . ’ |
| 11 | Not that it would have made any difference because I mean , people used to go into shops on that side , which never came up our way and the same with us , coming up there and not going that way is n't it . |
| 12 | Explain if it would have made any difference if the garage owner had said he would sell the car for £1,000 although no price was displayed . |
| 13 | King did not jump , not that it would have made any difference if he had . |
| 14 | Sometimes over the past year she had wondered whether if Fernando had mentioned marriage it would have made any difference . |
| 15 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 16 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 17 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 18 | It would have freed numerous troops from guard and patrol work . |
| 19 | It would have obliged local authorities to draw up a register of contaminated sites in their area , and supervise their clean-up . |
| 20 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — Santa Cruz says it would have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 systems still make up half its business . |
| 21 | It would have to spend large amounts of public money to save face . |
| 22 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 23 | A spokesman for Fife Health Board said it would have to take legal advice before any question of an appeal was considered . |
| 24 | Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had . |
| 25 | If Labour had cut arms spending , and thrown defence workers out of a job without making plans for their redeployment , it would have suffered electoral defeat , says Gerald Kaufman . |
| 26 | For example , if the broker acquired the stock with a view to selling it on to the customer at a profit , it would have to disclose this fact , the historic price of the stock , the current market price of the stock and the profit on the sale . |
| 27 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |
| 28 | But it would have damaged local democracy . |
| 29 | Quantum theory implies that it would have to move 207 times closer to the central proton to maintain the stability of the atom . |
| 30 | Since the stock market crash at the end of that year , policy has however been dogged by an excessive fear of recession , and it would have compounded this mistake to have failed to raise British base rates to 15 per cent this week . |