Example sentences of "would [verb] have [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice as many women would prefer to have a baby girl than a baby boy |
| 2 | ‘ Well if I married you I would want to have the name Signe Laine-Dempsey . ’ |
| 3 | I would like to have a Golf G T I car not too simple and not too flashy . |
| 4 | I would like to have a Golf G T I car not too simple not too flashy . |
| 5 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 6 | In the example , P2 would have had a negligence action against B. The measure of damages would have been the amount required to make the house safe for occupation , i.e. £30,000 . |
| 7 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 8 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 9 | But that wretched Sandra would have had a field day too — her picture in the local rag in her best dress . |
| 10 | The body linguists would have had a field day . |
| 11 | Today he would have had a tape recorder : did he , like Dickens , at least have shorthand , a not unknown writerly aid since Cicero 's time ? |
| 12 | Well , in Brixton they might , but only Lloyd would have had a tenor saxophone painted in gold on its bonnet . |
| 13 | If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’ |
| 14 | But those involved in entente floral feel at least they would have had a fighting chance of clinching the title . |
| 15 | A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Darby said : ‘ We calculated that , for a not untypical borrower in the region with a £100,000 mortgage and £40,000 income , Labour 's proposals would have had an effect equivalent to raising the mortgage rate by 2.5 percentage points . |
| 17 | I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals . |
| 18 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 19 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 20 | ‘ I would love to have a crystal ball and see where we will be next Christmas . |