Example sentences of "they would have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 2 | To accept them would have meant a complete recantation of all his actions over the past five years . |
| 3 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
| 4 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 5 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 6 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ If the Labour group had followed our recommendations they would have gained a prestigious shopping development and made some money for the poll taxpayers into the bargain . ’ |
| 8 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 9 | Only they would have possessed the necessary authority and material wealth at the time to take prime land — the site of a major trading warehouse — and transform it into a dog cemetery . |
| 10 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 11 | If the process could eventually be made catalytic , though , they would have lost a money-spinner. h |
| 12 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 13 | However this was not a material irregularity ; the Court had heard the tape and had the jury done so , it would have confirmed their views , expressed in the verdict of guilty , because they would have heard the gruff , bass voice of the appellant , as described by the victim in his evidence , and any lingering hesitation they might have felt would have been dispelled . |
| 14 | But once it was understood that Europeans might hope to reach the fabled East by travelling West , then explorers could reasonably hope that before very long they would have mapped the whole surface of the globe . |
| 15 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 16 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 17 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 18 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 19 | Not only should they fill posts in the lower Soviets — they should grasp the core of the political problem , which was cultural in essence : they would have to run the literary points , the schools , and the agricultural centres themselves in order to push the peasantry into the twentieth century and towards socialism . |
| 20 | They would have to develop a wider vision . |
| 21 | He was disgusted by Pete , but they would have to share the same space for years . |
| 22 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 23 | It is at least arguable : the employers did after all give in when faced with a strike , and effectively surrendered on this very question for the future , since they would have to pay the male rate to all the new ( male ) monotypists . |
| 24 | On the return journey , the boys were apparently challenged by the ticket collector on the train , who explained that the receipt was not a valid ticket , and that they would have to pay the full fare . |
| 25 | To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend . |
| 26 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 27 | Where such a sovereign state has been created by a grant of independence , the courts may be more reluctant to take back power in that they would have to recognise the political fact that the state in question is a foreign country and no longer part of the legal order of this country . |
| 28 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 29 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |