Example sentences of "would have have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 20 | A planet with a small mass , midway between Earth and Mars , would have had a low gravity and a thin atmosphere . |
| 21 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 22 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 23 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 24 | We would have had a real problem emptying the Seayak in that swell . |
| 25 | Mary would have had a blue fit if she had known about Ethel Ramsden 's adventure : |
| 26 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 27 | I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate . |
| 28 | These intra-uterine devices would have had a contraceptive effect and were relied on by some women for that purpose . |
| 29 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |