Example sentences of "[pron] would have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 2 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 3 | I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant . |
| 4 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 5 | And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly . |
| 6 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 7 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 8 | The money we put into oil exploration , if we were lucky , would find us a new field , which would have a limited life only . |
| 9 | cuts in defence expenditure , both of which are irresponsible and both of which would have a devastating effect on our capacity to defend ourselves . |
| 10 | Under the Labour party 's proposal , that property would be revalued , which would have a devastating effect on the finances of that young couple . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon , a champion for redevelopment of the site , said : ‘ I do n't want to see anything which would have a detrimental effect on the bus company but the area is crying out for a new development . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Fallon , who supports redevelopment of the site , said : ‘ I do n't want to see anything which would have a detrimental effect on the bus company but , at the same time , the area is crying out for a new development . ’ |
| 13 | Being in some institutional positions ensured that the individuals involved would come to make decisions which would have a major impact upon society . |
| 14 | He said that he would impose a state of emergency if necessary , but did not want to do anything which would have a negative effect on democracy . |
| 15 | Everything that Labour says about public spending shows that it is completely indifferent to inflation , which would have a bad effect on unemployment . |
| 16 | That is an interesting parallel with the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for local income tax , whereby local councils would be given authority to raise taxes locally — which would have a profound effect on industrial location . |
| 17 | Successful students would receive a diploma which would have a national ( international ? ) standing . |
| 18 | One , however , was the decision to establish a European Movement which would have a National Council in each country , to carry on the debate and pressure governments . |
| 19 | She would have a new dress for Sundays , which next year became an afternoon dress , and the next was worn in the mornings for doing her housework . |
| 20 | She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year . |
| 21 | She would have a spectacular black eye by the following morning ! |
| 22 | She would have a good chance of sneaking out unnoticed by then . |
| 23 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 24 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 25 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 26 | During her romance she had regularly raided her friends ' wardrobes so that she would have a presentable outfit to go out in . |
| 27 | She had a sudden feeling that if she could only work out how the ecology of Moloch ticked , she would have a vital clue , if not to discovering Ace 's whereabouts , then at least to getting a handle on the vanished aliens . |
| 28 | Again , if she could trade in a small part of the total value of the child benefit accruing to her , she would have a sizeable sum to present as a down-payment on a house . |
| 29 | She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image . |
| 30 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |