Example sentences of "would [vb infin] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I would prefer to have a concrete base , sides and back to these tanks , but wonder how to seal the front viewing glass . , . |
| 3 | Well certainly I mean , one would want to have a substantial majority in favour of a call to issue it . |
| 4 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 5 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 6 | You would need to have a sound grasp of English history before you began ; and you would need , at every point , to relate your study of the literature of any given period to the state and development of the language . |
| 7 | If the union struggle was to have any success it would need to have the complementary support of a political party , but as the ‘ parties ’ were preoccupied with the fight for short term gain and not permanent principles , they failed to capitalise on the situation . |
| 8 | Answer guide : In order to protect their current interests they would need to have an equal number of ordinary shares . |
| 9 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 10 | Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another . |
| 11 | In this particular case , the commanding officer who , to the Pentagon 's distress , would appear to have a human side to his nature , has elected to take twenty-four hours off . |
| 12 | ( Non-autistic mentally-retarded children would appear to have a different kind of problem . ) |
| 13 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 14 | However , with their formidable array of entertaining and experienced batsmen they would look to have a distinct chance in two the one-day competitions . |
| 15 | I believe that we in Scotland would like to have a similar facility . |
| 16 | Most constables would like to have a reasonable number of dramatic or at least interesting crimes to deal with . |
| 17 | Everybody would like to have a National Health Service , wherever you go in the world . |
| 18 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 19 | He said that Microsoft would like to have the dominant position in the industry that IBM had a few years ago ‘ but I do n't think that will happen ’ . |
| 20 | If the owner moves to larger or smaller premises , rugs can simply be added or taken away ; equally , if a rug is damaged another can be purchased for far less than it would cost to have the entire floor covering replaced ; and by simply interchanging items it is also possible to alter the whole appearance of a room . |
| 21 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 22 | Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete . |
| 23 | The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country . |
| 24 | You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned . |
| 25 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 26 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 27 | A planet with a small mass , midway between Earth and Mars , would have had a low gravity and a thin atmosphere . |
| 28 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 29 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 30 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |