Example sentences of "[det] would have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 2 | This would have to carry the 3.0 m ewes which the Meat and Livestock Commission consider would be needed to provide the present contribution , 50% of national lamb production , from upland and hill ewes as well as the 800,000 or so cows receiving subsidy . |
| 3 | Among other things , this would have engendered the tradition of Herod 's Massacre of the Innocents . |
| 4 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 5 | It is thought that this would have increased the flow of heat to the base of the lithosphere sufficiently to cause a phase change in the uppermost continental mantle after a delay of up to 70 Ma ( the time taken for heat to be conducted from the base of the lithosphere to just below the Moho ) . |
| 6 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 7 | ( Little of all this would have reached the public but for two courageous soldier-MPs , Col. Josiah Wedgwood and Maj. Victor Cazalet ) . |
| 8 | This , this is er , inch and half too short or else this would have done the |
| 9 | Some such process may have been originally responsible for the separation of England and France by the formation of the Straits of Dover , although this would have involved the breaching of a much broader barrier than the Purbeck-Isle of Wight ridge . |
| 10 | After recording a verdict of accidental death coroner Nicholas Gardiner said it was known that the seats should have been rear facing but he did n't think this would have affected the outcome . |
| 11 | This would have remained the impression if Scriven had not been followed by Dr David Fowler of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ( ITE ) . |
| 12 | This would have given the BRDC a £1.4m profit on their orginal investment and allowed them to retain the right to five per cent of any future public flotation . |
| 13 | If we had had something similar before , this would have revealed the full extent of our Director 's motoring convictions . |
| 14 | This would have enabled the locals to stay there and preserve their language and culture . |
| 15 | This would have rendered the transfer void . |
| 16 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 17 | Not that this would have made the slightest difference to the outcome . |
| 18 | Basal secretion was measured before the induction of the submaximal plateau — formal maximal studies were not performed as this would have made the test unacceptably long . |
| 19 | This would have exacerbated the agriculture/nature conservation conflict . |
| 20 | A Harley Street doctor had recommended in-patient care but this would have cost the family too much . |
| 21 | This would have excluded the whole ecclesiastical section of landholding society from the ordinary complex of feudal relationships , and in doing this , it would have threatened the cohesion of a kingdom in a way that no earlier reforming decree had done . |
| 22 | This would have abolished the system under which such allocations were the individual prerogative of the mayor . |
| 23 | But , while this would have brought the Tory rebels back on board , it would have left a big question mark over whether Mr Major could continue . |
| 24 | This would have had the effect of endowing York with metropolitan status as Pope Gregory the Great had originally intended and it is likely that Eadwine , on Bede 's testimony a thoughtful and sagacious individual ( HE 11 , 9 ) , appreciated the significance of this development . |
| 25 | This would have had the effect of changing the basis of compensation for land publicly acquired from a market value ( net of tax ) basis to a current use value basis , that is , its value in its existing use , taking no account of any increase in value actually or potentially conferred by the grant of a planning permission for new development . |
| 26 | This would have forced the resignation of many of the League 's leading members who were closely associated with the Communists . |
| 27 | This would have solved the problem of the national debt ( the influence of French precedent is revealed by their translation of biens nationaux as bienes nacionales . |
| 28 | Although this would have provided the pupils with much more information on the Second World War , we decided that it would take a significant amount of control away from the pupils . |
| 29 | This would have allowed the right of abode to all citizens in any part of the country . |
| 30 | This would have allowed the corporation to deforest over 1,000,000 hectares in the Mosquitia region of eastern Honduras with an option to explore a larger area if it did not yield sufficient pulpable material . |