Example sentences of "would have [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he would have moved to a two hundred and thirty five thousand pound house either |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He would have to return to a cooler part of the world . |
| 4 | This , if implemented , would have led to a still more impersonal service . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 7 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 8 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 9 | This is because smaller competing firms lose the benefits of size — economies of scale — which would have accrued to a single , large firm . |
| 10 | She had reminded him he would have to speak to a certain young man in the Blue Boar this evening . |