Example sentences of "would have [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture . |
| 2 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 3 | The gang would have come in a high-powered motor launch , not in an ordinary punt , hired from the boat-yard half a mile upstream . |
| 4 | Eric would have to travel in a military train . |
| 5 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 6 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 7 | The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state , and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on . |
| 8 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 9 | ( Incidentally , if Mary had thought , she would have slipped in a personal note instead of conveying the message secondhand through someone else . ) |