Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 2 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 3 | Investment in housing , transport , education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory . |
| 4 | Mary had once mentioned Tom to her but his marriage to Alice would , she knew , be of no significance in the intensely inward life of the old woman whom unsympathetic observers would have categorised as a mad old crone . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Although we do not have such specific documentation for Louis I , married to Marie Mauger , and his sons Jacques ( -Jean ) , Louis and Jean they too would have manufactured under a single family mark . |
| 7 | In six months her winnings , which had saved the firm , would have degenerated into a mere loan . |
| 8 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 9 | This , if implemented , would have led to a still more impersonal service . |
| 10 | That is , the initial inductive inference , which was legitimate insofar as it satisfied the criteria specified by the principle of induction , would have led to a false conclusion , in spite of the fact that all premises of the inference were true . |
| 11 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 12 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 13 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 14 | Normally I would have sounded like a tongue-tied half-wit , but that evening my response appeared to hint at the inexpressible depths and nuances of my infinitely complex relationship with the city , together with a gentle rebuke to a question which was either fatuous or unanswerable . |
| 15 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The organizers were rarely charged in court , probably because such a prosecution would have met with an unpleasant response . |
| 18 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 19 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 20 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 21 | If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature . |
| 22 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 23 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 27 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 30 | This is because smaller competing firms lose the benefits of size — economies of scale — which would have accrued to a single , large firm . |