Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was inevitable that he would eventually have to follow the likes of Gary Oldman across the Atlantic . |
| 3 | He would gladly have given a year 's salary just to know what exactly was the relationship between these two . |
| 4 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 5 | Given the choice , she would rather have faced the squall again . |
| 6 | But she would rather have had a handful of honest reviews . |
| 7 | In order to test it he or she would presumably have to examine a number of literate and non-literate societies from the point of view of their degree of ‘ scepticism ’ . |
| 8 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 9 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 10 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |
| 11 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 12 | If a form E111 had been obtained from Department of Health and Social Security , prior to departure , then the claimant should not have to pay the bill or would only have to pay a proportion of the bill at the hospital/clinic , where the treatment was received . |
| 13 | Differences occurred as to means , but examination of the electoral manifestos throughout the 1960s and 1970s shows a reluctance to politicize issues which , given the intractable nature of crime and the limited efficacy of measures to counter it , would only have had the effect of exciting popular expectations beyond the capacity of any government to fulfil . |
| 14 | At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference . |
| 15 | His mind would gleefully have converted the money into his own units of currency — large whiskies and five-pound yankees . |
| 16 | If she had been killed , he would personally have roasted the man over a slow fire . |
| 17 | We never tried to see one another 's faces : that would perhaps have spoiled the purity of the experience . |
| 18 | It was a great nature , checked by some hunger of the soul , which ( this is the source of all beautiful desire ) would perhaps have destroyed the soul , had it been satisfied . |
| 19 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Richard Baxter had to move away from Acton , otherwise his persecutors would merely have to correct the warrant and re-arrest him . |
| 21 | ‘ The great and beautiful Dane Jacobsen would merely have to cock a finger and the object of his desires would surely come running . ’ |
| 22 | She would just have to ask the landlord for time to pay . |
| 23 | He would just have to take the rope and chair together . |
| 24 | If she wanted to get home before dawn she would just have to take the plunge . |
| 25 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
| 26 | She would just have to return the papers later in the week . |
| 27 | It would just have confused the issue . ’ |
| 28 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 29 | What was proposed was not the submersion of party in a wider unit , but a parliament of collaboration between independent groups ; no more was discussed in 1918 and , despite the strength of the arguments for further collaboration , they would scarcely have carried the party to a greater commitment . |
| 30 | If the university had been , say , in Vermont , I would have agreed to go and would somehow have found the money to pay my fare and support myself in America — and interpret for Jean-Claude . |