Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back .
2 If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market .
3 If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market .
4 ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff .
5 I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets .
6 I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human .
7 The lexicon would have to include the usual forms of abbreviations used by a particular writer .
8 That would have covered the basic facts .
9 Leapor would have witnessed the early stages of this reorganization in agriculture .
10 Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds .
11 Equally , an electoral victory by Mr Tekere would have presented no particular problems to an administration whose members dominate Parliament .
12 Had he worried about the possibility of atomic warfare when he was attempting to split the atom , he would never have gone on ; and we would have lost the many benefits nuclear physics has given us , such as freely available power and treatment of disease .
13 Delegates blocked the election of former ZSL Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Kazimierz Olesiak , as chairman of the newly named party , feeling he would have hindered the broader moves towards the reunification of the peasant movement , electing instead Jozef Zych .
14 If it was important for an individual animal to be able to distinguish between other zebras , evolution would have led the three patterns away from one another to a greater degree .
15 This penal arrangement came into effect from 2 June and would have cost the clearing banks about £150,000 per week as a result of the lost interest .
16 Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education .
17 For that Alice got sixty pounds , though the woman kept saying a skilled sempstress would have to replace the missing beads , and it would cost — Alice had no idea what it would cost .
18 ( Did they mean to imply that ‘ courage ’ would have saved the other women from being raped ? )
19 As dash mounted advertisements would have spoiled the general lines of the car , they were removed , but later replaced by an advertisement board against the staircase , just above the dash .
20 In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place , gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting .
21 That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment .
22 The President and most Republican legislators favoured a version that would have limited the extra benefits to no more than 20 weeks , and objected to the qualification changes .
23 If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’
24 IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ?
25 So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry .
26 Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel .
27 I think the record , it 's available in the archives , historians who are honest and hardworking could even then have come up with erm answers that would have incriminated the German leaders of nineteen-fourteen , and therefore moved German society , I believe , substantially towards the democratic centre , if not the Social Democratic Left .
28 According to the regulations currently in force a grower would have to satisfy the following conditions in order to cultivate the Gamay today :
29 That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’
30 It would have suited the economic interests of monopoly capital if the plan had proposed a high rate of growth .
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