Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The relatively stable performance of the US dollar meant , on the other hand , that any investor operating in dollars would have realized only a 3.0 per cent loss on a US share portfolio , and a gain of 8.1 per cent in the UK market or of 79.3 per cent in Mexico . |
2 | the P.N.M. would have to sort out a few more issues of contention ; a Federated West Indies for instance ; constitutional reform ; should they let the U.S. retain its naval base at Chaguaramas ? and , are we a socialist movement ? |
3 | That would have made rather a stirring final scene for my Education ? |
4 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
5 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |
6 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
7 | So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained . |
8 | The writer had used 4 oz in 80 oz of 32 index fluid and , although I would have carried out a similar treatment as that ten years ago using saline , I consider this type of case nowadays has to be treated in a different manner , with up-to-date fluids and up-to-date knowledge — there are many first class fluids on the market today . |
9 | Normally his provocative question would have sparked off a fiery response , but now , feeling gloomy and depressed , Luce said nothing . |
10 | As sport is popularly thought of as a leisure time distraction rather than a central life interest or a possible career , it would have held only a marginal interest to the first generation . |
11 | I would have welcomed even a reproachful speech from the coroner but all I got from him was an expression of sympathy . |
12 | You would have to eat about a dozen apples in order to obtain that average daily 5 oz of sugar from this source ; you can imagine how long that would take and how difficult it would be to eat all the remainder of your daily food . |
13 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
14 | By eating the herbs , the fish would have taken on a slight herby flavour themselves . |
15 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
16 | This would have been , not because of the doctrine of estoppel ( which would have required either a deliberate misleading or negligence by her ) , but because of her signature on a document which , as was apparent on the face , was intended to have legal effect and which she had authorised the trader to complete . |
17 | There was no question but that the army , the Lebanese Forces militia , and a whole new wave of volunteers would have put up a desperate resistance . |