Example sentences of "would have have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ?
2 Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening .
3 They 'd have had a nine inch thick
4 I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game .
5 Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction
6 If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now .
7 Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her .
8 A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’
9 ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now .
10 He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son .
11 ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’
12 She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone .
13 To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever .
14 you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure
15 And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold .
16 Because if they went back they 'd have to have the electric chair and they do n't want the electric chair or the , cos that 's what they think cos they 've done so much .
17 ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’
18 Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ .
19 She would have had no such hopes in the old days , when Bill took pleasure in flouting normal expectations , seemed driven to flare up , to " create " as Mrs Orton might put it .
20 Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices .
21 Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete .
22 The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country .
23 As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives .
24 He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall .
25 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
26 Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s .
27 Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks .
28 If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth .
29 You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned .
30 A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children .
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