Example sentences of "would have [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' .
2 However , the party did not follow this line ; otherwise they would have opposed independence for the more advanced Poland , Finland , the Baltic States and the Ukraine , and supported it only for the more backward minorities .
3 Had the referendum on devolution resulted in a sufficient majority voting in favour of devolution for Wales , then the Welsh Assembly would have come into being and would have assumed responsibility for the administration of all Welsh education outside the university .
4 Granting such an appeal he felt would have endangered respect for the law .
5 The longer period of separation would have given time for the birds there to evolve as separate species and to have lost all connection with their original parent stock in India .
6 It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time .
7 It would have included responsibility for the finance , organization and administration of the Magistrates ' courts , and for criminal legal aid .
8 But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea .
9 He would have deducted £200 from the dependency for the accelerated receipt of £10,000 from the deceased 's estate , but would have added £500 for the incidence of taxation .
10 Northampton would have produced Coca-Cola for the whole of Southern England .
11 In the context of the present study , analysis of citing authors would have provided evidence for the existence , size , and institutional affiliations , of social groups of scientists .
12 You would have to provide room for the Zs , but you may never get one .
13 2.47 Lord Pearson would have awarded a multiplicand of £4,000 from which he would have deducted £250 for the accelerated receipt of the £10,000 .
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