Example sentences of "would have [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 2 | The organizers were rarely charged in court , probably because such a prosecution would have met with an unpleasant response . |
| 3 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 4 | as well as a development charge to the Board , is still paying less in the total cost of his house than he would have to pay for an existing house with vacant possession . |
| 5 | The copyist who supplied it was , to judge from other manuscripts in his handwriting , almost certainly an amateur — not the kind of musician Purcell would have trusted with an important task — and was not active until 1700 at the earliest . |
| 6 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |