Example sentences of "[that] would have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 2 | I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience . |
| 3 | And 69 Members ( including the tellers ) voted for an amendment that would have made permanent television conditional on the provision of such a channel . |
| 4 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 5 | Certain models have dropped to prices that would have seemed inconceivable even in late 1991 . |
| 6 | Then he saw Peter 's face , the excitement in his eyes , and remembered the morning and the crashing gallop through the wood , and being aware afterwards of what he had done , something that would have seemed impossible before . |
| 7 | Even under the firmly established Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher , backbenchers showed a degree of independence that would have seemed remarkable thirty years earlier . |
| 8 | To avoid the damage to company status that would have accompanied widespread redundancies , many regular production workers were transferred to marketing jobs , including door-to-door selling , while Sumitomo officials reorganised the company . |
| 9 | Here was a socialist plot that would have launched General Ripper into a pre-emptive strike against Brussels . |
| 10 | The Dale Farm Olympic Youth Camp , held earlier this month in Antrim , dealt with topics that would have left old timers in sport shaking their head in disbelief . |