Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presuming Husameddin to have read his manuscript accurately , therefore , one would have to consult further manuscripts to discover what Ibn Taghribirdi actually says . |
| 2 | France , meanwhile , would have liked tougher quotas , while Britain wanted no import limits at all . |
| 3 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 4 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 5 | But as the Community moved towards the goal of political union the European Parliament would have to give greater co-legislating powers to the Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 7 | He would have preferred greater child provision , too . |
| 8 | Like-for-like replacement will be needed in the short term instead of larger-scale installation of newer systems which would have allowed faster trains . |
| 9 | Because they are more likely to default on repayments , they would have to pay higher rates of interest than older married couples with small families . |
| 10 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 11 | ‘ I would have chosen better circumstances , ’ said Rocastle . |
| 12 | This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school . |
| 13 | Managing director Bernard Segrave-Daly said he had also been hoping the Chancellor would have introduced a duty system which would have helped smaller firms . |
| 14 | Practices with less stable populations would have to run shorter cycles to achieve similar detection rates . |
| 15 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 16 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 17 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 18 | Melissa flushed vivid puce , threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off . |
| 19 | The rate at which Sunday schools sprang up nevertheless strengthened the authorities ' conviction that they would have to make better provision for the education of the masses . |
| 20 | To succeed , the book would have required greater impartiality , a more critical appraisal of the work described and more attention to the balance between topics . |
| 21 | Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools . |