Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 2 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 3 | I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant . |
| 4 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 5 | He himself had gone to University College , Oxford , so he thought I should apply there , because I would have a greater chance of getting in . |
| 6 | And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly . |
| 7 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 8 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 9 | Preoccupied with thoughts of her school and its organisation — she must get brochures printed and order equipment-there would be much redecoration and rearrangement of the rooms at Moorlake she would have a million and one things to do before she got this project airborne — Sara looked at him blankly . |
| 10 | She would have a new dress for Sundays , which next year became an afternoon dress , and the next was worn in the mornings for doing her housework . |
| 11 | She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year . |
| 12 | She would have a spectacular black eye by the following morning ! |
| 13 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 14 | She would have a good chance of sneaking out unnoticed by then . |
| 15 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 16 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 17 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 18 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 19 | During her romance she had regularly raided her friends ' wardrobes so that she would have a presentable outfit to go out in . |
| 20 | She had a sudden feeling that if she could only work out how the ecology of Moloch ticked , she would have a vital clue , if not to discovering Ace 's whereabouts , then at least to getting a handle on the vanished aliens . |
| 21 | Again , if she could trade in a small part of the total value of the child benefit accruing to her , she would have a sizeable sum to present as a down-payment on a house . |
| 22 | She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image . |
| 23 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 24 | She would have a miserable life , of course . |
| 25 | If the Iraqis oppose the landing in contravention of the latest U N Security Council resolution demanding re-supply of diplomats , then the official said you would have a classic pretext for war . |
| 26 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 27 | And you would actually , in a facial , you would have a facial massage with aromatherapy oils and that 's very relaxing , that 's very nice . |
| 28 | If you also add a fine strand of peach into the sky mix , you would have a fabulous , stormy sunset to back the dramatic outline of the teasels . |
| 29 | Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ? |
| 30 | You , you would go , you would have a certain amount of information already in that |