Example sentences of "would have given [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
2 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
3 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
4 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
5 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
6 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
7 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
8 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
9 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
10 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
11 | An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents . |
12 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |
13 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
14 | This fell short , however , of the two-thirds majority in the 250-seat Supreme Soviet which would have given the Round Table a free hand to effect constitutional changes . |
15 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
16 | If all these bodies bore similar complements of volatiles then this homogeneous accretion ( of volatiles ) would have given the initial distribution in Figure 5.1(a) . |