Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , the persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ would have to pay and , on payment , would become subrogated to the primary claim against the contravener . |
| 2 | They divided local government services in such a way that most of the major services including education , major planning , personal social services and housing would have gone to the regional authorities while the districts would have been left with minor aspects of these services and certain amenity services . |
| 3 | His hero is a stick who would have contributed to The New Statesman . |
| 4 | Conventional economic analysis would have pointed to the opposite policy , but would have ignored the human factor in making a complete system work . |
| 5 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 6 | If , before the innocent purchaser bought the goods , the original owner had avoided his contract with the rogue , ownership in the goods would have reverted to the original owner . |
| 7 | A Labour government would have clung to the current parity in the ERM while suffering continual assaults on its aims and methods by a business and financial establishment wholly converted to the values of Thatcherism . |
| 8 | The route to this intermediate target may be quite different from the route that would have led to the ultimate target . |
| 9 | GM would provide funds which would have led to the joint development of a new product range . |
| 10 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 11 | They would have exploited to the full every real and imagined grievance . |
| 12 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 13 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
| 14 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 15 | It seems that he would have come to the same conclusion regarding the implication of such control . |
| 16 | Kepler even conjectured that , by a backward projection from current orbital positions , it might be possible to determine the age of the earth — on the supposition that the most harmonious sound would have corresponded to the original creation . |
| 17 | None of this showed on her face , but a certain rigidity of jaw would have betrayed to the careful watcher that perhaps she was n't quite as calm and in control as she wished to appear . |
| 18 | A year ago I would have stuck to the strict moral point . |