Example sentences of "would have [verb] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said , and she said oh well she said you know well it 's that 's how you 've got ta take it stripped , for me to take that to get that done up by a restorer you 'd have to take all the upholstery off , or quite a bit off |
| 2 | To be honest , I do n't think they 'd have done that a year ago Brian . |
| 3 | I 'd have to spend half an hour calming Dawn down after these attacks . |
| 4 | So you 'd have to restrict that a lot . |
| 5 | What might be called a conservative legal-constitutionalism is a consistent theme within Tory-Anglican thought throughout our period , even though not all Tory Anglicans would have argued such a position at all times with the same degree of commitment . |
| 6 | As I have just indicated , the anthropologists of Tylor 's generation would have viewed such a suggestion with contempt . |
| 7 | This development on the green belt of Ipswich is partly because of the Conservative Government withering away the planning powers of borough councils , who in the past would have dismissed such a planning application as this , on the grounds that housing and industry should not mix and that it is desirable to have a green buffer zone between the two . |
| 8 | Lucky for you that you are the only bank in Juniper Green , otherwise I would have transferred all the Club 's funds long ago . |
| 9 | I was dubious at first because since her illness Jennifer has become a very private person and I do n't think she would have liked all the hubbub over in the other section ; but here — ’ she glanced round at the softly decorated walls , the strategically placed water-colours and the subdued lighting ‘ — here , I think , could well be the answer . ’ |
| 10 | The expense of the American War of Independence , Priestley pointed out , ‘ would have converted all the waste ground of this country into gardens . |
| 11 | Warriors who fought with El Cid would have employed such an amalgam of both kinds of weaponry . |
| 12 | By the end of the period of imperial expansion , in the middle of the twentieth century , it was widely believed that everyone in the world should be a citizen of an independent and sovereign state and should have the same rights as all the other citizens in the state , but in 1500 very few people would have understood such a notion . |
| 13 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 14 | One could identify the political and social attitudes or perspectives , and the social structures or historical events which would have to precede such an incident for it to occur at all . |
| 15 | If anything , the return of the land to the practising farmers by the land Acts would have strengthened such a morality . |
| 16 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 17 | The same horses would have to go all the way . " |
| 18 | How could he believe that she would have done such a thing ? |
| 19 | ‘ It would have saved all the cleaning and clearing that 's going on today , but I suppose we simply did what we always do . |
| 20 | His father could n't be home yet because he would have turned half the lights off again . |
| 21 | No sensible designer would have conceived such a monstrosity if given a free hand to create a flatfish on a clean drawing board . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But it would have made all the difference to Project Eden , ’ Cheryl muttered . |
| 24 | The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble . |
| 25 | In any case , Liza 's mental state would have made such a journey alone with Celia quite impossible and Harriet was glad not to have to admit to this . |
| 26 | The defence is called " fair comment " — a misnomer , because it in fact defends unfair comment , so long as that comment is honest : " Every latitude must be given to opinion and to prejudice , and then an ordinary set of men with ordinary judgment must say [ not whether they agree with it , but ] whether any fair man would have made such a comment … |
| 27 | When the knight got to be too old for fighting , about 30 ( ! ) , and became arthritic and slow , his squire would have learned all the skills of chivalry and daring , and would defend him and his family into their old age . |
| 28 | The sense of injustice created by such a system would inevitably work against its deterrent effectiveness ( Beccaria always acknowledged the importance of consent in producing compliance ; it is difficult to imagine how his version of the social contract would have allowed such a system to operate ) . |
| 29 | They had to keep the river streams all flowing and if there was any deluge of rain and stones they would have to keep all the pools in good order and they would |
| 30 | Not only were most holdings too small to provide much work for hired labour , but the big villages that would have housed such a workforce did not exist . |