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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In the following years , he would have undertaken a vision quest similar to that described by the Nez Perce warrior Yellow Wolf :
2 Even the most heavy-weight scientists , snobbish to the end about their colleagues , would have accepted a Nobel prize winner of Blackett 's stature .
3 In March 1986 , the Iranians wanted Phoenix missiles ; in October they wanted 100 Howitzers plus 500 barrels , for which , as Cave told them , any country in the world would have to open a production line .
4 But to attract the funds needed to capitalize , NoS would have to persuade a merchant bank to sponsor it , which would inevitably lead to confrontation over the Right-On organizational principles on which the project was based .
5 Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years .
6 He told Gambrill he would have faced a prison sentence but for mitigating circumstances .
7 The judge told Gambrill he would have faced a prison sentence , but for mitigating circumstances .
8 All of his slides were chosen for a purpose , and were of high quality , although we would have liked a garden plan .
9 One would have to fix a viewing direction and even then there would be the effect of the variation in the position of the light source , the sun , to consider .
10 I overheard the man next to me saying that he would have to use a chest harness as he had broken his ankles twice .
11 Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers .
12 He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place .
13 My hon. Friend the Member for Rochford ( Dr. Clark ) , whose rates bill on a four-bedroomed house was £1,280 , would have received a council tax bill of £510 — a reduction of £770 .
14 In the latter case the Bank of England would have to hold a gold reserve to meet the demand of foreigners who wanted to convert sterling into gold .
15 At a time when he was lounging about in bed most of the time I would have loved a bed tray but I not think , I do n't think I 'm going to bother with one now .
16 Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection .
17 If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves .
18 Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades was a leading advocate of an enlarged Premier League , which would have sounded a death knell for the Football League .
19 And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody .
20 The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies .
21 The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix .
22 ‘ Quite right , sugar-plum , ’ Mr Wormwood said , casting a look of such simpering sloppiness at his wife it would have made a cat sick .
23 George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours .
24 Certainly they were all rooting for him and just as certainly Harvey responded , and he did things that night that would have attracted a talent scout from the Bolshoi .
25 The ideal study to confirm the hypothesis of Kraemer et al would have included a control group drawn randomly from the population , and followed in the same intensive manner as the study group .
26 Sutton Hall said he would have to pay a carriage fee of £68 ; his cheque was cashed last August , but he still has n't been sent the units .
27 In the end , the Kitsuka was designated as a special attack weapon , and would have carried a half-ton bomb .
28 Success at Wimbledon would have carried a £150,000 bonus , which Regal were offering for victory in both derbies , but the owner has refused the opportunity .
29 He said even if he had known it was an aneurysm , it may have been totally inoperable and would have carried a mortality rate of 80% .
30 It appears that a reworded criterion : " can represent a given decimal number on a number line to one decimal place " would have yielded a success rate of 75 per cent , about the same as that for the first item .
  Next page