Example sentences of "they would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept them would have meant a complete recantation of all his actions over the past five years . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | If the process could eventually be made catalytic , though , they would have lost a money-spinner. h |
| 7 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They would have to develop a wider vision . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 14 | This would be expected because , first , they would have been socialized into a version of mathematics nearer to that of the university ‘ modern ’ pure mathematicians than that of their elders and because , secondly , they would have had a potential interest in changes that could , within schools , challenge the seniority of their elder colleagues or , at least , they would have had less of a vested interest in current practice . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 18 | If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk . |
| 19 | They would have to fly a straight unwavering course in order to hit their target , leaving themselves to the mercy of the gunners on the ground and the fighters in the air . |
| 20 | More than half of our first intake acknowledged that they would have preferred a traditional course , having the study of literature as its principal component . |