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

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1	The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying .
2	Japan had few reserves to continue the struggle , though to have admitted this would have courted political disaster .
3	This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies .
4	If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy .
5	Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples .
6	This would have commanded high interest rates but these might , on precedent , have been subsequently lowered .
7	This would have brought more people out into the corridors and foyers .
8	This would have avoided all discussion of the succession .
9	This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force .
10	This would have encouraged chemical interaction between the gases of the Earth 's early atmosphere to form organic molecules — although , to be sure , it would also have tended to break those molecules apart once they had formed !
11	Lubin comments that ‘ Shyness probably made concrete political action impossible , for this would have required direct action with other people .
12	This would have left many people with worthless claims against insolvent companies .
13	This would have left visuo-spatial functions intact in the right whereas in women language could have become established in both hemispheres , crowding most specialised visuo-spatial ability .
14	Even this would have demanded more water than could be afforded .

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