Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 2 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 3 | I too would gladly have exercised these master-skills , but there was one essential ingredient I lacked : Charlie 's strong will and his massively forceful desire to possess whatever it was that took his fancy . |
| 4 | Indeed , in most cases for most injuries , anybody would say " I would rather have avoided this injury than have any amount of money whatever in compensation " . |
| 5 | Before that , however , periods of extension during the Permian and Mesozoic would presumably have rendered this sealing mechanism inoperative . |
| 6 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 7 | It seemed to Marie that people would only have to take one look at her to see that she did n't belong in these surroundings . |
| 8 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 9 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 10 | It would only have needed one postponement at the school 's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol 's big opportunity ! |
| 11 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 12 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 13 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 14 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 15 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |
| 16 | She would just have to give young William the task of cutting out the leather soles , he had learned very quickly and his hands , though small , were strong and deft . |
| 17 | She would just have to find some way of avoiding physical contact until Dana returned from her trip to Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 18 | — i — would just have used three defenders against san marino — something like |
| 19 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 20 | A hurricane would not have dislodged those styles . |
| 21 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 22 | ‘ She would not have exhibited such joy as you are doing , ’ said the new Lord Dacre drily . |
| 23 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |
| 24 | If they had done that in '31 , we would not have played any cricket . |
| 25 | But clearly the old tale from Herodotus would not have survived 2,500 years without any supporting evidence whatsoever , so how can the rare cases that have kept the story going be explained ? |
| 26 | It is beyond dispute that advances in medicine and improvements in living conditions have enabled individuals who at previous times would not have survived severe illness or chronic handicaps to live on , perhaps with some disability , into their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades . |
| 27 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 28 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 30 | The two enquiries above clearly have a common source — delays at the DHSS — but the bureaux recording system would not have highlighted that difficulty . |