Example sentences of "would [adv] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here in Caesarea that Peter had his memorable lesson not to call any man ‘ unclean ’ — which , as a Jew , he would instinctively have done to all Gentiles . |
| 2 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 3 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 4 | The conditions of the moral economy have been met , okay the landlords have been forced to if one accepted that was the way in which the peasants saw the world they would not have gone beyond that . |
| 5 | The neutrinos and antineutrinos , however , would not have annihilated with each other , because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly . |
| 6 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 7 | However , I think that the evil would not have appeared through violent fighting and killing , but through spiteful arguments and petty fights . |
| 8 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 9 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 10 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 11 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 12 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 13 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 14 | We would not have dreamed of changing companies unless we both moved . |
| 15 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 16 | Ordinarily he would not have spoken of one woman to another , but Miss van Williamsburgh was so straightforward , so unaffected , and Céline was always so near the surface of his thoughts . |
| 17 | Does his Lordship mean that the court would not have inquired into any alleged misconstruction of that term ? |
| 18 | Embalming would not have allowed for this and , had the person not been dead prior to the beginning of the operation , he certainly would be once it was all over . |
| 19 | This system is better than the absolute waste of pulping , but it leads to major breakdowns of a kind that the private libraries would not have allowed under any circumstances . |
| 20 | A system of teacher appraisal , of the sort proposed in a report from a national steering group last week , would not have helped in either of these cases . |
| 21 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 22 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 23 | It is clear , though , that scholars from protagoras to the nineteenth century would not have agreed with this . |
| 24 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , as Primaflora was immoderately aware , he would not have come for these alone , with no heed for the heat of the day . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 27 | They would not have responded on such a scale otherwise . |
| 28 | They would undoubtedly have alienated much of their ‘ middle class ’ support , and would not have won over any working class Tories . |
| 29 | During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age . |
| 30 | Had his colleagues backed fusion in 1920 Law would have accepted it , but he would hardly have stuck to that position in the party crisis that must have followed . |