Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The pain would have killed a lesser being but Aenarion had passed through the fire of Asuryan and agony could not slow him . |
| 32 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 33 | One of these days , though , I 'll find an office where there really is a Mr Middleditch and I would have to leave a well-wrapped paperback edition of The Story of 0 . |
| 34 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 35 | O'Neill would n't concede it — it would have split the Unionist Party . |
| 36 | Her original wish to run two candidates in at least one-third of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies was abandoned on the grounds that it would have split the socialist vote in many areas . |
| 37 | Identifying the specific weaving group is , of course , far more difficult , and you would have to gather a considerable amount of information on the individual variations in weave , colour and composition before hazarding a guess . |
| 38 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 39 | Someone standing outside the room would have felt the powerful draught and know something was wrong . |
| 40 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
| 41 | Conventional economic analysis would have pointed to the opposite policy , but would have ignored the human factor in making a complete system work . |
| 42 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 43 | He would have dragged the unfortunate woman back here with him . |
| 44 | And he said Tory plans would have placed an additional £20 per person on the annual bill . |
| 45 | It 's improbable that a male college would have achieved a similar effect with men or women . |
| 46 | Milton , owned by Mr and Mrs Tom Bradley , whose daughter , the late Caroline , produced him as a youngster , would have achieved a second record had he won in California . |
| 47 | Had such a plan been feasible , it would have achieved the complete withdrawal of all Arab armies and preserved the integrity of Palestine . |
| 48 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 49 | ONE by one , the people who would have governed a post-apartheid South Africa have been selected for murder . |
| 50 | McLeish decided this was good stuff from which , but for Francesca , he would have gained no clear idea of what a firm like Yeo 's was really for . |
| 51 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 52 | He said : ‘ If the Labour group had followed our recommendations they would have gained a prestigious shopping development and made some money for the poll taxpayers into the bargain . ’ |
| 53 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 54 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 55 | Mmmn , that would have to include an away win . |
| 56 | The lexicon would have to include the usual forms of abbreviations used by a particular writer . |
| 57 | Oh I 'm not bothered about things like that , but I would have liked a decent size garden . |
| 58 | He would have liked a good cigar . ’ |
| 59 | Ideally the research team would have liked a randomised control experimental design whereby half the eligible people would have been allocated to the action group and the remainder to the control group on a random basis . |
| 60 | She was always impressed by his fame and would have liked a theatrical career . |