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

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1 The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research .
2 WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ?
3 And 69 Members ( including the tellers ) voted for an amendment that would have made permanent television conditional on the provision of such a channel .
4 Last week their friends and relatives staged a demonstration alleging that police covered up evidence that would have supported that claim .
5 Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant .
6 The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet .
7 Melissa flushed vivid puce , threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off .
8 To avoid the damage to company status that would have accompanied widespread redundancies , many regular production workers were transferred to marketing jobs , including door-to-door selling , while Sumitomo officials reorganised the company .
9 ‘ Are you going to join us ? ’ invited Eleanor , with a smile that would have charmed most men right into the palm of her hand .
10 Here was a socialist plot that would have launched General Ripper into a pre-emptive strike against Brussels .
11 The Dale Farm Olympic Youth Camp , held earlier this month in Antrim , dealt with topics that would have left old timers in sport shaking their head in disbelief .
12 The Lancaster was now the mainstay of Bomber Command , each aircraft delivering a bombload that would have needed four aircraft of 1940 vintage to have lifted it .
13 For the rest of a sunny but refreshingly cool Delhi day he buried himself in batting practice with a vigour that would have sapped any man without his phenomenal stamina .
14 Any partial parse that is rejected will be removed — thereby removing any parse that would have contained this component .
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