Example sentences of "would [not/n't] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 2 | ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ . |
| 3 | Dublin claimed allegations made in Parliament and the British Press linking Mr Ryan with the IRA meant he would not have faced a fair trial . |
| 4 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 5 | So even if the Queen had disapproved of her daughter 's remarriage , she would not have risked a national outcry by snubbing the wedding . |
| 6 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 7 | Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups . |
| 8 | I understand that feeling because we have had to do things that are counter intuitive and very difficult but unless we had driven inflation out of the system we would not have provided a proper platform for secure long term growth . |
| 9 | I would not have put a stray dog out into such a night . |
| 10 | ‘ I would go down to the beach around 7am for an hour and would not have used a proper skin care procedure . |
| 11 | I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack . |
| 12 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 13 | ‘ Dad would n't have wanted a solemn shrine , ’ says Brian . |
| 14 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 15 | You would n't have thought a small-circulation satirical magazine could excite such ignorant indignation . |
| 16 | There was no space for two small children or one transversely-mounted adult , not a trace of walnut , and if you wanted to listen to a radio in a Cobra you 'd have needed speakers that would n't have disgraced a heavy-metal band . |