Example sentences of "[adv] would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 2 | The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi . |
| 3 | That alone would have lasted a week and been enough to take in and remember . |
| 4 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 5 | In his Preface to the Gardeners Dictionary , Miller invited communications on ‘ new experiments in relation to this art ’ and , at a time when scientific work was developing rapidly , this request alone would have attracted a large response . |
| 6 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 7 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 8 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 9 | This view is commonly known as Positivism and , in its heyday , was so widely diffused among social scientists that to spell it out would have seemed a mere statement of the obvious . |
| 10 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 11 | She really would have preferred a cup of tea , but could n't refuse when they 'd gone to so much trouble . |
| 12 | Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . |
| 13 | But surely they too would have preferred a decision to an indefinite postponement . |
| 14 | Sondra Locke never would have made a Forces ' pin-up but that did n't deter Clint Eastwood from turning her into a star with lotsa spunk — and they were off-screen lovers — although he could have had his pick of ‘ beautiful broads ’ . |
| 15 | He contrasted this approach with the methods of the best Russian and German directors , who almost certainly would have made a film in which the characters were less important than the system they would be condemning . |