Example sentences of "[that] would have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President and most Republican legislators favoured a version that would have limited the extra benefits to no more than 20 weeks , and objected to the qualification changes . |
| 2 | This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel . |
| 3 | Uninhibited by any tradition of building , they have taken off in a confused conglomeration of tile , cement , plastics , marble and paint that would have taxed the imagination of Disney . |
| 4 | But what comes across from the letters is an overwhelming ignorance about female physiology and sexuality , the difficulty of gaining access to information , and a lack of privacy in their homes that would have rendered the use of female methods of birth control extremely difficult . |
| 5 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 6 | But this time there would be a complete novelty , and one that would have given the most strongly anti-Marian pause . |
| 7 | The British government has backed down under pressure from the House of Lords over a controversial proposal that would have given the Secretary of State for Education formal responsibility for the way in which universities are run ( see Nature 362 , 275 ; 1993 ) . |
| 8 | Premier League chairman Sir John Quinton , who will also attend the talks , made ‘ final offer ’ noises last Friday when Taylor rejected a deal that would have given the PFA 5pc or a minimum of £1m from future revenue . |
| 9 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 10 | There was nothing short of taking the chap by the scruff of his neck and showing him the street that would have done the trick . |
| 11 | Nor should we overlook the emotional fatigue that would have followed the achievement of the 1832 Reform . |
| 12 | SHILDON Strollers retained their leadership of the Durham Second Division at a canter when a weakened Wingate failed to offer any real threat despite the incentive of moving into third place with a win that would have toppled the home team from the No 1 spot . |
| 13 | Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up . |
| 14 | Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any . |
| 15 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 16 | Wales B could have repeated Swansea 's midweek defeat of the world champions but Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens missed with three penalties , a conversion and a drop goal — 14 points that would have made the difference . |
| 17 | I can not think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain . |
| 18 | A division of labour , for example , might have been different in ways that would have affected the system of education . |
| 19 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 20 | Is not it clear that a party which , a few years ago , was offering to do a deal with the Soviet leadership that would have involved the sacrifice of 100 per cent . |
| 21 | But his dream of reaching the White House was haunted almost from the start by a series of disclosures that would have wrecked the career of another politician . |
| 22 | The second problem that would have troubled the faithful at the death of the last apostle was this . |
| 23 | If the judge had accepted that submission that would have unlocked the door to the exercise of his discretion under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 24 | Two of America 's biggest banks , Security Pacific and Wells Fargo , admitted that they discussed a possible merger last year , a move that would have produced the second-largest bank in America . |
| 25 | The Big Five's moratorium on vetoes at the UN Security Council was broken by Russia , which blocked a resolution that would have shared the expenses of peacekeeping in Cyprus . |
| 26 | ‘ When he discovered you 'd disappeared , he went storming off half cocked and in a filthy rage that would have rocked the very mountains . |
| 27 | But on Wednesday the Senate voted overwhelmingly against a procedural motion that would have allowed the cut to be introduced later in the year . |
| 28 | Graham Taylor 's battling heroes could not quite hold on for a win that would have allowed the beleaguered England manager to say ‘ Nuts ’ to his critics . |
| 29 | It 's hard hard to say how much that would have helped the situation out there I mean it definitely would have helped in some degree , but I mean there was still all the oil that was present on the platform in the separators except those which were left under pressure all that would have had to burn . |
| 30 | THE BILL that would have banned the hunting of wild animals was rejected in Parliament yesterday by just 12 votes . |