Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 2 | A union would have to issue written warnings to all those members it had learned were threatening an unofficial stoppage telling them that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued . |
| 3 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 4 | Cairns Boston , head of the company 's management team at Land 's End , explained : ‘ We have reached the point where , without these new measures , we would have to give serious consideration to banning climbing altogether at Land 's End . ’ |
| 5 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 6 | Fun would have to take second place to the serious business of home-making and saving money . |
| 7 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 8 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 9 | And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes . |
| 10 | And do you know , I very much doubt whether Herluin would have raised any objection to a successful theft , but he 'll have the youngster 's hide now it 's proved a failure . ’ |
| 11 | Once again Bush endorsed a Republican alternative which would have limited extra coverage to a maximum of 20 weeks , and which included an assortment of tax incentives for businesses and individuals . |
| 12 | Inclusion of any of these studies would have made little difference to our conclusions about mortality reduction . |
| 13 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 14 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 15 | Mr Tony Brighton , the TGWU 's representative at RAF Stafford , said : ‘ We can not say whether the presence of the RAF ambulance would have made any difference to saving a life , but there was delay . ’ |
| 16 | I personally would have preferred that decision to already have been taken . |
| 17 | I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material . |
| 18 | The conditions of the farm-workers during the 1890s made gleaning essential : a loss of the gleaned corn would have meant actual hunger to many a farm-worker 's family during the ensuing year . |
| 19 | Small parties would be the losers ; senators would have to pay more attention to their constituents and would be less beholden to their party machines . |
| 20 | In Italy the Christian Democrats had accepted the ‘ opening to the left ’ , cooperation and alliance with the Socialist Party , as the only practical option for stable governmental coalitions : inevitably , they would have to pay some heed to their new partner . |
| 21 | Now the Home Secretary admitted in the committee stage on the floor of the house that to have had the public inquiry stage would have added seven weeks to the boundary process . |
| 22 | Finally , as regards the poll tax , it was on the grounds that disabled people should be treated as ‘ normal ’ citizens that the government rejected the Allen amendment in the House of Lords , which would have offered extra rebates to poor disabled people to cover the full cost of poll-tax payments wherever they may live . |
| 23 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |
| 24 | The problem is that Sun would have to make fundamental changes to Solaris if USL 's Unix SVR4.2 interface specifications are adopted in the new RoadMap . |
| 25 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 26 | Outside the hotel he would have attributed such behaviour to day excursionist ‘ Arrys and ‘ Arriets and called the police . |
| 27 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |