Example sentences of "would have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings .
2 Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation .
3 Investment in housing , transport , education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory .
4 It was not , of course , the first time that she had exercised the powers of Regent , but on this particular occasion she knew that she would have to deal with a new constitutional structure in which it was envisaged that she would merely be informed by the Ministers and would take no decisions on her own .
5 Doone would have to deal with a cunning mind in the best actor of them all .
6 Mary had once mentioned Tom to her but his marriage to Alice would , she knew , be of no significance in the intensely inward life of the old woman whom unsympathetic observers would have categorised as a mad old crone .
7 I do n't think he would have moved to a two hundred and thirty five thousand pound house either
8 The müsellim would have no power to interfere with the right of the Serbs to collect taxes and , in cases where Christian subjects were being judged in the courts , the müsellim would have to sit with a Serbian knez .
9 She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable .
10 A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture .
11 I would have to say on a personal point of view , no cos I will deal quite
12 Although we do not have such specific documentation for Louis I , married to Marie Mauger , and his sons Jacques ( -Jean ) , Louis and Jean they too would have manufactured under a single family mark .
13 In six months her winnings , which had saved the firm , would have degenerated into a mere loan .
14 The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding .
15 Many crops are grown from seed every year and so all the necessary genetic mutations would have to happen to a single plant within one growing season .
16 He would have to return to a cooler part of the world .
17 Given the party 's pledges on pensions , defence , law and order , and other statutory commitments , particularly on social security , this meant that spending cuts would have to fall in a few areas , notably housing .
18 This , if implemented , would have led to a still more impersonal service .
19 That is , the initial inductive inference , which was legitimate insofar as it satisfied the criteria specified by the principle of induction , would have led to a false conclusion , in spite of the fact that all premises of the inference were true .
20 It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden .
21 If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant .
22 ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise .
23 At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost .
24 He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted .
25 Normally I would have sounded like a tongue-tied half-wit , but that evening my response appeared to hint at the inexpressible depths and nuances of my infinitely complex relationship with the city , together with a gentle rebuke to a question which was either fatuous or unanswerable .
26 If we 'd have put in a price based on A C scaled fees , we would have overspent by a hundred and fifty five percent .
27 On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man .
28 A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is .
29 CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month .
30 Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) .
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