Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |
| 2 | Any attempt to draw up a wider programme would have to rely overwhelmingly on the only information available to the Opposition — the autumn statement in its present form . |
| 3 | If the adverbials in the above examples were not included in the clause , one would have to rely entirely on the context to establish the time of the event . |
| 4 | Old Gustav may still have some old-time socialist ideals about the rights of man , but the general feeling is that Manfred would have done well on the faculty at Belsen . ’ |
| 5 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 6 | His dark grey suit would have sat well on a clerk in a City bank . |