Example sentences of "[pron] would have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 2 | oh the timetable which I as well will , will erm , would be about two months , the first step has to be taken by the defendant because we do n't know yet whether they are prepared to oppose the structure , and if so , what sort of structure they would be prepared to oppose , erm , if and when , er a formal offer of structure came through , I would have little doubt that we could instruct accountants and get a response within a matter of weeks , sometimes one has to if they 're doing an commercial structure within a week or so because the offer is only open for ten days |
| 3 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |
| 4 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 5 | But I believe she always felt that I had leadership potential and that one day I would have great responsibility . " |
| 6 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 7 | What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ? |
| 8 | Much as I was itching to play with the Bob Marley , I knew I would have more chance of parking Armstrong illegally when I collected Werewolf . |
| 9 | I knew that I would return to this island again when I would have more time to search . |
| 10 | ‘ If I thought I would have any chance of success , I probably would , ’ she said sarcastically . |
| 11 | It was so special , and I would have special party shoes which were gold or silver . |
| 12 | Last week I went to a fortune teller and she told me I would have another child even though I do n't want to . |
| 13 | I would have this country , con congress , to support this motion for the health and welfare of women members of the G B M B trade union , I move . |
| 14 | I would have some idiot life in another country because some medieval cleric in Iran decided I had to be killed . ’ |
| 15 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 16 | Is n't it also true that the European union or community or whatever you like to call it , is also intending to introduce a compulsory identity card in the form of a smart card carrying details of the citizen 's health , but which would have ample room to put all sorts of other things on . |
| 17 | On the one hand some teachers saw the process as a hindrance — as something they had to do for the LEA and which would have little consequence for themselves . |
| 18 | In addition , it discharges a host of minor , even trivial , functions , the cessation of which would have little impact on public life . |
| 19 | They made a demand of our waste , without offering any allowance for the same ; and by degrees did we tamely submit , we should be brought under a yoke , which would have some affinity to that of the Egyptian Bondage . |
| 20 | The sceptical arguments which would have this effect all require a move which the anti-realist would disallow , and hence never reach the annihilating conclusion . |
| 21 | It was a discomfort which would have brief pause only while its inhabitants slept and it extended from the top to the lowest level . |
| 22 | It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us . |
| 23 | The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing . |
| 24 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 25 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 26 | She would have all summer in the secret garden before he came back . |
| 27 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 28 | If he went on like this she was n't even sure she would have enough composure to return to Vienna and resume her church and radio work . |
| 29 | Carrie was very pleased to see the change in her father now that he had settled into his new job , but she still fretted over her parents , and she had not forgotten her vow that one day she would have enough money to buy them a decent house to live in . |
| 30 | on the release of a writer 's first album , it is unlikely that he or she would have enough qualifying works to become a publisher member of PRS ( see the ‘ Copyright and Performing Right ’ article for details on these qualifying requirements ) . |