Example sentences of "would have [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxfordshire health authority has decided that a threatened £500,000 overspend means it can not open a new cardiology unit which would have freed beds for other uses . |
| 2 | At churches near them they were told they would have to attend services for 26 weeks , then their baby might be baptised . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I would have to ask Artai for Sidacai to be freed into my custody , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Since the first edition of this book both the Matrimonial Homes ( Co-ownership ) Bill introduced in the House of Lords in 1980 ( which would have made provision for statutory co-ownership of the matrimonial home ) and the Land Registration of Law of Property Bill ( affecting the practice that has grown up following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland ) [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) have failed . |
| 5 | But the context in which they were voiced by Lord Woolton was the much wider concern about the nutritional status , and hence the efficiency and morale , of the whole population — in other words , arguments of utility rather than social justice ; unequal shares would have meant starvation for some — hardly the best recipe for a united war effort . |
| 6 | The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution . |
| 7 | A single 30-ton sauropod corpse would have lasted Tyrannosaurus for three years , leading the Halsteads to surmise that among other anatomical reasons T. Rex was a slow-moving scavenger , incapable of moving faster than 2 mph ( 4 kph ) . |
| 8 | Victoria made it clear any schedule would have to make time for both shopping and relaxing , with official duties including opening hospital wards and presenting medals at swimming galas . |