Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 2 | While smaller ticket ( or lease deal value ) items suffered , some major big ticket deals helped ease the blow of what would have been an even more difficult year . |
| 3 | Spears and axes have utilitarian forms , the manufacture of which would have been within the abilities of anyone with basic smithing experience ; both have sockets for handles/shafts which would have been created by beating the iron around a former . |
| 4 | In the event there was no test of what would have happened in Bonar Law 's absence . |
| 5 | Since this policy was never implemented , the question of what would have happened if the resources for new hostels had not been forthcoming remains hypothetical . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not a question of what would have happened if , it 's what will happen . |
| 7 | The vehicle was composed of three compartments , in which the rear one was constructed so that the passenger , lying down to sleep , extended her feet beneath what would have been the ‘ boot ’ of a road coach . |
| 8 | But the Gospels themselves confirm that Jesus and his entourage , in keeping with what would have been expected of the Messiah , were militant nationalists who did not shrink from violence . |
| 9 | He offered her a massive £1 million fee for what would have been a historic concert series . |
| 10 | This would have probably entailed working involuntary overtime , possibly long , awkward hours and , almost certainly , making a physical input , one consequence of which would have been a limit on the amount of time spent with the children and energy contributed to their amusement . |
| 11 | Not only did his broadsides provide the only small check there was against wholesale malai excesses , they alerted the population to what would have been kept secret . |
| 12 | According to the charge , they sold almost two million shares on behalf of clients at prices which realised £1,378,892 in excess of what would have been obtained had the shares been sold after the issuing of the profits warning . |
| 13 | They are said to have sold almost two million shares on behalf of clients at prices which realised £1,378,892 in excess of what would have been obtained had the shares been sold after the warning . |
| 14 | It was significant that the Official Secrets Act — the use of which would have been fatal to the publication — was not resorted to by the government . |
| 15 | The World Cup triple jump bronze medallist has decided to run in the 100 metres at the Cleveland County Stadium on Saturday instead of going through the motions in what would have been a practice trial in his specialist event . |
| 16 | It is impossible to check the validity of this statement , as the Government has consistently refused to provide the key information necessary to make this calculation , namely details on what would have paid out in the uprating allowance of supplementary benefit had it still been in force in April 1988 . |
| 17 | In addition , it discharges a host of minor , even trivial , functions , the cessation of which would have little impact on public life . |
| 18 | For example , a return on capital constraint could be met by raising prices above what would have been chosen , as well as by distorting the combinations in which factors are used . |
| 19 | His clerks worked next door in what would have been the library , and his family used the upper floors for their own apartments . |
| 20 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 21 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
| 22 | The character , in fact , was last seen disappearing from the Close on what would have been her daughter 's most memorable day . |
| 23 | The BBC planned to give the film a third airing on what would have been the admiral 's eightieth birthday , and when this became known we were approached by Lord Brabourne , Mountbatten 's son-in-law , to say that his cousin Prince Charles who , as everyone knew , adored his uncle , wanted to pay him a personal tribute . |
| 24 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 25 | The case would be more useful as a guide to sentencers in similar cases if the extent of the discount were more precisely stated and a clear indication given of the court 's view of what would have been the correct sentence at first instance . |
| 26 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 27 | I very much resented them , because they drew my mother to what would have been a private retreat for me . |
| 28 | ‘ I ate too much last night , ’ said Betty at what would have been breakfast if they 'd made any . |
| 29 | But Mr Clinton had an additional burden ; he came to power at what would have been a singularly difficult moment for any American president . |