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

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1 There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together .
2 Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now .
3 The vet said he would have undergone prolonged suffering and an extreme amount of pain , because the first pellet would n't have killed him .
4 The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays .
5 This would mean in effect that the privately owned operating companies would have to shoulder all research and development , waste disposal and decommissioning costs .
6 Perceptions such as these would have affected general conduct and attitude .
7 A boycott would have hit Austrian road and dam projects in Asia .
8 We can not completely rule out that treatment outcome would have been better if all patients would have received continued care and reinforcement by the investigator , but our study showed that there was no correlation between the number of visits to the Encopresis Clinic and treatment outcome ( p>0.1 ) .
9 This raid would have cut all railway and road bridges in this area between France and Spain , on the same night that St Nazaire was raided , in the original plans .
10 Tolkien , no doubt , would have seen this point and dealt with it somehow if he had published a full account .
11 I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing .
12 His bomb would have caused enormous damage and more importantly , could have killed anyone in the area .
13 One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms .
14 They will also be examining the Antarctic Minerals Convention , signed in May 1988 , which would have permitted controlled mining and oil exploration .
15 I would have preferred this afternoon but it seems he is riding in three races at Wincanton . ’
16 He would have preferred fresh garlic but there was n't any .
17 If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time .
18 But in the latter establishment customers would have demanded more space and comfort .
19 But under contracting regulations , companies would have to match current pay and conditions and may be deterred from taking on Westminster employees .
20 Despite the small scale of production the craftsmen would have needed considerable knowledge and skill to accumulate the equipment and materials to produce these brooches .
21 On the basis of 2.5 cwt per animal , it would have needed 400 horses or mules .
22 An inverted-U relationship would have predicted different magnitudes and directions of correlation for different risk levels .
23 If he had been seriously concerned about the competitiveness of British industry , he would have welcomed that inquiry and not blocked it .
24 Difficulties were thought to arise over reaching agreement on a headquarters for a merged society , which would have had 75,000 customers and combined assets of £350m .
25 They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget .
26 She hoped for a reply , but dared not hope too much ; she imagined that the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt would have had many replies and perhaps ladies with experience would be far more preferable to a young comparatively inexperienced girl like her .
27 Oliver would have had more sense and initiative .
28 As a politician and a realist , Citrine recognised that his plans needed the support of his new colleagues , and consequently that he would have to make tactical concessions and choose carefully the issues on which to fight .
29 Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and .
30 Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert .
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