Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 2 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 3 | Her absence ( if it was regular and fairly lengthy ) would presumably have given a similar opportunity to her husband . |
| 4 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 5 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 6 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 7 | As it was , the most she could hope for was his speedy return to Hong Kong , but for now she supposed she would just have to endure a certain amount of contact , as he had warned her earlier at the party just before leaving her with Cavell Fielding and Penny Seu Chen . |
| 8 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 9 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 10 | And success by striking civil servants , seeking an improvement in pay , would not have imposed an intolerable strain on the state . |
| 11 | ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ . |
| 12 | Dublin claimed allegations made in Parliament and the British Press linking Mr Ryan with the IRA meant he would not have faced a fair trial . |
| 13 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 14 | Louise would not have made an unsuccessful marriage in the first place , and she supposed her marriage must be unsuccessful , because Edward had told her that she was not a woman . |
| 15 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 16 | So even if the Queen had disapproved of her daughter 's remarriage , she would not have risked a national outcry by snubbing the wedding . |
| 17 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 18 | Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups . |
| 19 | I understand that feeling because we have had to do things that are counter intuitive and very difficult but unless we had driven inflation out of the system we would not have provided a proper platform for secure long term growth . |
| 20 | I would not have put a stray dog out into such a night . |
| 21 | ‘ I would go down to the beach around 7am for an hour and would not have used a proper skin care procedure . |
| 22 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
| 23 | She believed Spittals would somehow have treated a male officer differently — spoken less patronisingly , with more respect . |
| 24 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 25 | Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process . |
| 26 | Their enthusiasm started wearing thin after half an hour or so , but would nonetheless have generated an incredible upturn in business . |
| 27 | There was no inherent cost advantage in moving over to an entirely new financing system and it was also clear that whatever system was chosen , taxation would still have to finance a giant share of the service . |
| 28 | We would still have had an extremist council — not Labour , but Labour and Liberal combined . |
| 29 | In fact , nearly all the breeders are based round the London area , which would still have meant a difficult journey to collect a bird , even if I could find one . |
| 30 | Which would probably have cheered an angry Oz reader , who signed himself ‘ J.F. ’ in a letter to the magazine that year . |