Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Employers wishing to hire foreigners would have to have permission from the local labour exchange , if they wished to avoid paying twice the value of the wage into the employment fund .
2 Canton , Massachusetts-based Perception Technology Corp has agreed to be acquired by Brite Voice Systems Inc of Wichita , Kansas for about 3.35m new Brite Voice shares giving an indicated value of about $15.9m ; the combined companies would have had revenues in excess of $35m on a pro forma basis for fiscal 1992 .
3 Prost 's observations need to be weighed against his mounting paranoia as Senna continually proves to be the faster of the two but , when you see only one member of the McLaren-Honda management standing by Prost 's car on the grid in Spain while five key people fussed around Senna , Prost 's fears would appear to have substance .
4 Early publishers often sent out books simply sewn , with no proper covers at all , or in a temporary binding , in the expectation that many of their customers would wish to have volumes bound in their individual preferred styles , perhaps to match the rest of their libraries .
5 It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language .
6 The simple truth was that in any case , few such poor families would have had cash that they could have regularly given away .
7 During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded .
8 Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer .
9 Had West Bank society been industrialized , with the social transformation this implies , the Israelis would have had difficulty preventing these mayors from producing a united national leadership .
10 Even before hunting began , his sons would have had cause to identify with him because each and every one of them was powerfully motivated by the drives of his id to wish to become such a primal father in his turn .
11 Working on George 's local knowledge — his father 's home was less than an hour 's drive away — they planned to reach Miss Tuckey 's cottage at half past eight when the other committee members would have had time to digest and drive in from the countryside .
12 Mr Johnston appealed to parents and the province 's MPs to ensure that local pupils would continue to have milk in schools .
13 Obviously there had been no notices after the first night , and few of the critics of the major papers would have had time , let alone interest , to give the play a second viewing ; but a North London local paper with a weekly deadline had sent along its critic on the Monday of the second week , and their review appeared on the Thursday .
14 The social services would have had powers to protect not only the injured party ( even without evidence that could be proven in court ) , but also all the other children , probably by their removal from the home .
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