Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more . |
| 2 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 3 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 4 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 5 | Since Leapor , according to Freemantle , destroyed much of her juvenilia , it is possible she would have wanted to exercise similar judgement over the publication of her two volumes . |
| 6 | Fabia , although she would have liked to ask that question , knew that they were not well enough acquainted for her to ask , or pass any comment that was more than a surface one . |
| 7 | The Marshal would have liked to turn this problem over to the Captain who could have applied some brains to it . |
| 8 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 9 | The relevant date for calculating your pay is normally the date on which your job would have terminated had proper notice been given under the Consolidation Act , whether or not such notice was in fact given . |
| 10 | sadly I would have said given enough warning . |
| 11 | At the same time , the state could save the $3000 it would have cost to produce each tonne of CO 2 . |
| 12 | The plant , which would have cost between £1,100 million and £1,700 million , had already been backed by the cabinet , but was rejected by MPs on environmental grounds , despite the boost it would have given to recession-hit Finnish industry . |
| 13 | Most patients ( 718/769 ) would have preferred to use postcoital contraception than experience an unplanned pregnancy . |
| 14 | Yet all were critical of the commitment to the Flanders theatre , would have preferred to see some land forces redeployed in Spain , and saw the blue-water policy as central . |
| 15 | Staff at Levendale Under Fives Group , Yarm , became entangled in a row over a separate water supply to their new building which would have meant finding extra cash over and above the £25,000 raised by parents for the new building . |
| 16 | It is highly unlikely that the British government would have agreed to exchange this nobleman , an amiable figure of no political importance , for its American prisoners but at around 11 am on 23 April 1778 , John Paul led his little force of a dozen armed sailors through the garden of the mansion . |
| 17 | As far as temperature went , the cut-off point was 6°C — when the temperature was below this no bats at all were detected , presumably because they would have needed to use more energy keeping warm than they would have got from the relatively few insects available for food . |
| 18 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 19 | There was no way we would have dared attempt these routes had they sported their current designations then . |
| 20 | However , we would have wished to see those clauses altered . |
| 21 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 22 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
| 23 | With a head as hard as hers , she would have failed to register any number of missiles lobbed her way , such as the Scarman Report which followed the Brixton riots of 1981 . |
| 24 | I can not help but wonder how much more he would have enjoyed catching those fish if he had baited the swim himself . |
| 25 | He managed to connect all the moves except for the last in one push and doubtless would have succeeded given more time . |
| 26 | It might have been thought that the massive level of population decline experienced by Britain 's cities since the 1960s , principally affecting their inner areas as it did , would have helped to reduce these problems . |
| 27 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 28 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 29 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 30 | Even the villains speak truly of their villainy , like Iago in Otello , but he , Davide , would have had to make false speeches to client and judge , had he taken the fees for claiming some rickety starveling was the landowner scholar come back to earth . |