Example sentences of "would have [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 2 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 3 | The ethics of restoring material in this way can be endlessly debated ; the matter is complicated in the case of Don Carlos because Verdi sanctioned four versions , and no one can be sure he would have disapproved of the restoration of his Paris excisions . |
| 4 | The Javanese dignitaries , who would have disapproved of the suggestion , were already stirring to depart in their jeeps for Makassar to catch their plane home . |
| 5 | One can not help imagining , however , what Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio would have made of the roles . |
| 6 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 7 | He blamed his parents for being over-ambitious on his behalf ; a claim denied , said the prosecution , by his sister , who would have talked of the love and support of their parents . |
| 8 | He would have approved of the extensive use on the site of existing equipment and buildings . |
| 9 | Captain Picard would have approved of the game , though , which was all very innocent . |
| 10 | Howard would have approved of the improvement in pay and conditions of service and greater emphasis on training but he might have been quite surprised at the eventual outcome of well-meaning initiatives . |
| 11 | As we can be sure that Howard would have approved of the constructive use of prisoners ' time and energy and training in work habits , so we can probably also assume that he would have been disappointed in and disapproving of the latest trend . |
| 12 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 13 | You would have read of the exploits of some famous rock climber and you would be familiar with the meanings of such terms as abseiling , etrier , carabiner , piton and so on . |
| 14 | Pete gave another look over the Princess , and wondered what Ted would have thought of the berthing arrangements had he been here to see them . |
| 15 | How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ? |
| 16 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 17 | This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin . |