Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following years , he would have undertaken a vision quest similar to that described by the Nez Perce warrior Yellow Wolf : |
| 2 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
| 3 | He told Gambrill he would have faced a prison sentence but for mitigating circumstances . |
| 4 | The judge told Gambrill he would have faced a prison sentence , but for mitigating circumstances . |
| 5 | All of his slides were chosen for a purpose , and were of high quality , although we would have liked a garden plan . |
| 6 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Rochford ( Dr. Clark ) , whose rates bill on a four-bedroomed house was £1,280 , would have received a council tax bill of £510 — a reduction of £770 . |
| 8 | At a time when he was lounging about in bed most of the time I would have loved a bed tray but I not think , I do n't think I 'm going to bother with one now . |
| 9 | Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection . |
| 10 | If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves . |
| 11 | Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades was a leading advocate of an enlarged Premier League , which would have sounded a death knell for the Football League . |
| 12 | And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody . |
| 13 | The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies . |
| 14 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 15 | ‘ Quite right , sugar-plum , ’ Mr Wormwood said , casting a look of such simpering sloppiness at his wife it would have made a cat sick . |
| 16 | George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours . |
| 17 | Certainly they were all rooting for him and just as certainly Harvey responded , and he did things that night that would have attracted a talent scout from the Bolshoi . |
| 18 | The ideal study to confirm the hypothesis of Kraemer et al would have included a control group drawn randomly from the population , and followed in the same intensive manner as the study group . |
| 19 | In the end , the Kitsuka was designated as a special attack weapon , and would have carried a half-ton bomb . |
| 20 | He said even if he had known it was an aneurysm , it may have been totally inoperable and would have carried a mortality rate of 80% . |
| 21 | It appears that a reworded criterion : " can represent a given decimal number on a number line to one decimal place " would have yielded a success rate of 75 per cent , about the same as that for the first item . |
| 22 | Roy Cohn , twenty-seven , with a legal background , was the more serious of the two , with an unappealing scowl and an arrogance that would have befitted a crown prince of Prussia . |
| 23 | ‘ We are developing liners for bins , which would have contained a bomb blast such as at Warrington and would have reduced injuries . ’ |
| 24 | She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger . |
| 25 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Right , ’ I said , as they subsided onto the seats and panted while I packed away our food wrappings ( which would have started a dinky fire ) . |
| 27 | Sensible parents would have chosen a hill station near us , rented a house , and sent us every year to the same school . |
| 28 | There were scenes in the Commons which would have shamed a school playground . |
| 29 | I do n't think the I do n't think the D T I would have issued a investment management certificate to Robert Maxwell you know because he 'd done naughty things in the past , so he just would n't have got the certificate . |
| 30 | In the example , P2 would have had a negligence action against B. The measure of damages would have been the amount required to make the house safe for occupation , i.e. £30,000 . |