Example sentences of "they would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
| 32 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |
| 33 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 34 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
| 35 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |
| 36 | Some books are encountered too late , after the period when they would have had maximum impact . |
| 37 | They would have to make political judgements on how far to reduce standards of living . |
| 38 | The rate at which Sunday schools sprang up nevertheless strengthened the authorities ' conviction that they would have to make better provision for the education of the masses . |
| 39 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 40 | Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and . |
| 41 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
| 42 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 43 | They would have sacrificed young Hanvey as well . ’ |
| 44 | The new-style boards could not have worked as they were meant to ; and the misplaced expectation that they would have established industrial democracy would have collapsed . |
| 45 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 46 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 47 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 48 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 49 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 50 | There were no discussions at all on the improvement of the peasant economy , despite the fact that they would have reaped quick propaganda rewards for the Bolshevik Party . |