Example sentences of "we would have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 2 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 3 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 4 | Knew we 'd have to do the old ones , so I dug out all the figures of the last two years ’ productions . ’ |
| 5 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 6 | Every now and then we 'd have to climb a huge wall , or jump a ditch , or crawl through a barrel . |
| 7 | Be a radical depar we 'd have to learn an awful lot about what it really meant . |
| 8 | We 'd have to get the bloody books out if I was here . |
| 9 | it wo n't , you know if it wo n't cos we 'd have to have a new one then would n't we ? |
| 10 | And he went into the main agent in Edinburgh and gave them an order for three of those , and of course , we did n't get them just right away because er probably we 'd have got the last one about a couple of years later in these days . |
| 11 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 12 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 13 | Mathematically we can still be caught , but we 'd have to make a big mistake . |
| 14 | We 'd have to catch the next one . |
| 15 | But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started . |
| 16 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 17 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 18 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 19 | That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear . |
| 20 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 21 | Maybe then we would have prepared a different course of action . ’ |
| 22 | As a result of that , and I think to make sure this is something we would have to ask the advisory committee but I would read it that that includes mutual recognition of eldership . |
| 23 | We would have to put the entire army in jail . ’ |
| 24 | Had he worried about the possibility of atomic warfare when he was attempting to split the atom , he would never have gone on ; and we would have lost the many benefits nuclear physics has given us , such as freely available power and treatment of disease . |
| 25 | Dr Leithe-Jasper of the Kunsthistorisches Museum told The Art Newspaper , ‘ If the fire had continued out of control for another ten minutes , we would have lost the marvellous frescoed library . |
| 26 | In other words , to obtain an initial fair comparison we would have to multiply the industrial related deaths by at least a factor of two and compare that figure with the number of recorded homicide cases . |
| 27 | However , we would have provoked a huge political fracas and affected some of the poorest in the land . |
| 28 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |
| 29 | Clearly we would have to have a separate system for representing the presence of objects and their features that was not dependent on knowing their identity . |
| 30 | That is not surprising , because it is inconceivable that we would have used a nuclear weapon in those circumstances , not least because of the negative security assurances which positively precluded their use in such circumstances . |