Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I left because no one could take what he 's had to take ; surely he 'd have put a gun to his mouth by now ? |
| 2 | In its original form , it would have involved a cost to the British taxpayer , to the Government and to employers of up to £500 million . |
| 3 | The public had a right to be properly informed , which could only be denied them if it appeared absolutely certain that the article would have presented a threat to judicial authority . |
| 4 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 5 | The existence , somewhere within the Empire or on its periphery , of a lineal descent from Jesus or his family would have represented a threat to the coalescing Church hierarchy — the propagators of specifically Pauline Christianity . |
| 6 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 7 | Not , in truth , that she expected any , important or otherwise , but it would have made a difference to the day . |
| 8 | For one thing , there would be problems in establishing causation : showing that steps that a more energetic management might have taken would have made a difference to the company 's position would involve an assessment of complex and often imponderable factors . |
| 9 | But surely they too would have preferred a decision to an indefinite postponement . |
| 10 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 12 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 13 | ‘ Had either Syria or the Palestinians been shown to be involved , ’ he said , ‘ it would have added a complication to the peace conference , perhaps provoking an Israeli walk-out . ’ |
| 14 | Hans would have had an answer to the current predicament . |
| 15 | Leftist critics have suggested that this is because any consideration of the socio-economic context of crime would have proved an embarrassment to the classical position . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 17 | This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent . |