Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 2 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 3 | If the IPR talks had failed , the USA , under Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act , would have imposed retaliatory duties on some US$450,000 million worth of Chinese imports . |
| 4 | For a similar reason he has also been forced to cancel the long-cherished project of staging the British première of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann 's epic Die Soldaten — a production which would have focused international attention on Opera North at a point when it is clearly ready for such exposure . |
| 5 | He would have earned more income on the seven thousand pounds . |
| 6 | A number of years ago , I would have bought two papers on a Sunday , the Observer and the Sunday Times . |
| 7 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 8 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 9 | Had they failed , Martin and his men — i.e. those who dreamt up the match schedules — would have had enough egg on their faces for a thousand omelettes . |
| 10 | Kit wondered whether Joseph , if he had stayed around , would have had any views on Frank 's motorbike . |
| 11 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
| 12 | It might have been expected that such a paper from Nägeli , who was one of the most distinguished botanists in Europe at that time , would have had immense impact on the early development of plant ecology . |
| 13 | They would have to make political judgements on how far to reduce standards of living . |
| 14 | Monohydrate is an alternative form which releases oxygen at lower temperatures , but has disadvantages — including that we would have to make considerable expenditure on a new plant . |
| 15 | HAD Nigel Lawson toured the tea bars at the Blackpool Winter Gardens yesterday , he would have found one topic on everyone 's lips — increased interest rates . |