Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 2 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 3 | Bowbazaar links Calcutta 's business district with the hugely-crowded Sealdah suburban railway terminus and an explosion of this intensity during daytime would have killed hundreds of people , he said . |
| 4 | Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation . |
| 5 | Hilda 's late husband Percy ( above ) would have felt right at home in her new flat |
| 6 | these three are all very good defenders as mentioned in previous postings by me and all would have fitted fine at Leeds — but i feel that the jewel of the collection is Johnsen — he has speed and is extremely flexible — and he has not yet signed for Spurs — so he might still be in for a trial at Leeds . |
| 7 | So farmers would have to use this against sheep scab and they 've have to use other dips or sprays against fly strike in the sum sum summer . |
| 8 | He added that unlicensed premises would be a risk because Camra would have to order thousands of pounds worth of beer with no guarantee of being granted a licence . |
| 9 | The people who would have suffered most from Mr Moore 's penal approach are the 1.6 million children in one parent families . |
| 10 | They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account . |
| 11 | And I ho , I would have done this on Tuesday when I actually worked out a melody but I did n't manage a bit of paper so I could n't write it down . |
| 12 | Sometimes his decisions are made on grounds of convenience : after most newspapers in Britain committed contempt of court over the arrest of " Yorkshire Ripper " Peter Sutcliffe , the Attorney decided against prosecuting on the ground that he would have to put dozens of editors in the dock . |
| 13 | The Sheikha was completely veiled but , I knew her eyes would have turned black with distress . |
| 14 | Stockman recognized that the sort of fundamental change he sought ‘ would have hurt millions of people in the short run ’ and involved the , ‘ ruthless dispensation of short run pain in the name of long term gain' , but these , he believed , were the hazards that true revolutionaries faced without flinching . |
| 15 | Some expenditure would have occurred irrespective of designation , but almost three-quarters of total spending occurred as a result of enterprise-zone declarations . |
| 16 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
| 17 | There were so many trunks and piled boxes in the attic , and she would have to make dozens of journeys up those narrow stairs . |
| 18 | That 's the only bait I did n't have but , who would have thought that with ice about ? |
| 19 | Rain reminded him he would have put hundreds of people out of work . |
| 20 | Not that , probably , I would have found much in common with Kington Aimes , the humorous novelist , or Douglas Parkin , the Northern poet , or the two left-wing critics , but the dearth of English tones left me feeling even more culturally isolated than usual . |
| 21 | Maybe it would have got better without treatment — it happened sometimes ; it was difficult to be sure . |