Example sentences of "[noun] would have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suggested reason for this decision is that to grant an action would have subverted the common law negligence action which lay in these circumstances . |
| 2 | The Association would have changed the day if the Minister had consulted them , but he had banned it without enabling them to change their plans . |
| 3 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |
| 4 | The Leader of the Opposition would have signed the treaty without the debate at Maastricht — he would have accepted anything that M. Delors put in front of him . |
| 5 | Under the Working Paper 's proposals , therefore , vaginal penetration by the penis would have remained the focus of sexual offences legislation . |
| 6 | Throwing up his career like a Gauguin and turning his back on civilisation would have meant the end of financial support for both of them . |
| 7 | It is obvious how this affair had to end : the political logic of the contest would have made the gamble ‘ adventurist ’ even if the military logic had not . |
| 8 | However that avenue was never explored to its end ; and if it had been , one may doubt whether many readers would have grasped the total effect . |
| 9 | That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways . |
| 10 | Few of her readers would have read the books and in wartime would be unlikely to obtain them . |
| 11 | However , it seems most unlikely that from the media coverage any readers would have disbelieved the accounts of the two teenage girls , especially given the number of men involved . |
| 12 | Tess would have to leave the dairy at Christmas . |
| 13 | He did n't expect to find any as the hotel had recently been refurbished and the KGB would have used the latest available technology , burying it in the plasterwork , the heating and the plumbing . |
| 14 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 15 | stated that a National Diploma was likely to be set up and all embalmers would have to re-take the exam . |
| 16 | The programme would have captured the imagination of TAMZIN DAVIS , 14 , if she 'd stumbled upon it while tuning her radio — but only for two minutes . |
| 17 | The teachers on such a programme would have to confront the difficulty I have just raised , as well as questions about the mimetic values of fiction in the face of structuralist and poststructuralist assertions that word and world have no necessary relation . |
| 18 | However , [ 15b ] is less direct than [ 15c ] in the sense that the hearer would have to derive the contextual implication conveyed explicitly in [ 15c ] in order to establish how well B got on . |
| 19 | Lady Eleanor would have opened the door to her Prioress . |
| 20 | ( No record exists of any air-raid shelter at St. Peter 's Hospital , but the original cellars of the House of Industry would have served the purpose well , if any such had been needed . ) |
| 21 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 22 | The exporter would have to assess the interest differential between borrowing in dollars and investing the spot sale proceeds in DMs , against the cost of a forward contract . |
| 23 | If a new Prime Minister were needed for an emergency coalition and no obvious successor existed , the Sovereign would have to make the best choice possible . |
| 24 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 25 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 26 | And here , in this chapter , I have placed an illustration ( Figure 1 ) — how Paley would have loved the electron microscope ! — of an eye together with two successive " zoomings in " on detailed portions . |
| 27 | Surely Oliver and Cobalt would have put the stair lights on if they had gone upstairs ? |
| 28 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 29 | Beeny and Wetherall would have to share the blame , but there was no glaring mistakes . |
| 30 | However , under outcomes ( a ) or ( b ) , someone other than McAlpine would have to initiate the action ( see Scenario 2 ) . |