Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Few of her readers would have read the books and in wartime would be unlikely to obtain them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | stated that a National Diploma was likely to be set up and all embalmers would have to re-take the exam . |
| 7 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 8 | Khrushchev asserted in March 1960 that ’ the Soviet Union is now the world 's strongest military power' ( Izvestiia , 2 March 1960 ) and , although it was recognised that Soviet economic capacity was then inferior to that of the United States , it was confidently predicted that the socialist nations would have outstripped the West within a decade . |
| 9 | That way true supporters would have got the vouchers and would not have lost out in the draw . ’ |
| 10 | If they were to escape back through the trench they would have to move quickly ; any moment now the sepoys would have crossed the yard from the hospital and outflanked them . |
| 11 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 12 | Much more speed and her feet would have left the ground . |
| 13 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | Seat belts would have lessened the injuries considerably . |
| 16 | The Prince of Wales was involved in setting up the agreement under which , had the sale gone ahead , Crown Estate commissioners would have leased the land to the Nature Conservancy Council and its successor the Scottish Natural Heritage Agency . |
| 17 | In this respect the CNAA 's central concerns would have remained the same whatever policy governments formulated , so long as there were ‘ non-university ’ institutions seeking approval for their courses under the terms of the CNAA 's Charter . |
| 18 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 19 | The rounds would have extended the stage-set character of the architecture . |
| 20 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 21 | Absolute fidelity to the prototypes would have demanded the use of stone mullions , sills and lintels framing wrought-iron casements as well as the reproduction of the segmental-arched profile which caps each opening . |
| 22 | The word ‘ prostitution ’ is avoided ; its moral implications would have disturbed the economic tale , besides which there were girls in the audience . |
| 23 | Auctioneers would have to face the problem of liability over CIDs and have to engage extra staff to check cattle ear tags with CIDs . |
| 24 | The section on industry was written as though Peter Lilley was going to retain his post : to have spiced it with ideas would have given the game away . |
| 25 | Another 20 stations would have increased the range to 90 per cent . |
| 26 | Almost certainly some of the workers would have left the area . |
| 27 | ‘ Happy Game ’ , for instance , has a chorus about celebrating the end of an unhappy relationship , a state of affairs that in ‘ Immigrants … ’ days would have seen the band crying their guitars out at high speed for three minutes or so . |
| 28 | Most kids these days would have enjoyed the spectacle , told their mates , and never thought about reporting the events to the local police . |
| 29 | With Lewis 's share likely to be around £5.5m for the fight of his life , the British and Commonwealth champion 's handers would have to break the bank to shift the fight from Las Vegas - but they have n't entirely given up hope . |
| 30 | This case falls within ( a ) : the school was so over-subscribed that to admit all the applicants would have prejudiced the provision of efficient education . |