Example sentences of "would have [verb] a different [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach .
2 A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading .
3 Maybe then we would have prepared a different course of action . ’
4 Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement .
5 ‘ Many young women would have made a different choice , ’ he answered .
6 Had a piece of Lotharian history survived for these years , it would have told a different story .
7 If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge .
8 And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps .
9 Were perception conceived of differently , it is quite likely that the decision tree would have had a different structure and led to different conclusions .
10 That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around .
11 To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ?
12 And everything would have taken a different turn .
13 McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ .
14 On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings .
15 ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’
16 At sea level we would have got a different picture as the man-eating breakers punched against the rocky coast .
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