Example sentences of "would have have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction
2 If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now .
3 Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her .
4 ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now .
5 He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son .
6 ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’
7 it wo n't , you know if it wo n't cos we 'd have to have a new one then would n't we ?
8 She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone .
9 To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever .
10 you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure
11 And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold .
12 The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country .
13 You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned .
14 A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children .
15 If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump .
16 If we did n't do what was done at Castlewellan we would have had a complete sell out . ’
17 A planet with a small mass , midway between Earth and Mars , would have had a low gravity and a thin atmosphere .
18 Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints .
19 On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’
20 If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying .
21 We would have had a real problem emptying the Seayak in that swell .
22 Mary would have had a blue fit if she had known about Ethel Ramsden 's adventure :
23 The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy .
24 I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate .
25 These intra-uterine devices would have had a contraceptive effect and were relied on by some women for that purpose .
26 Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country .
27 She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant .
28 She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night .
29 ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’
30 ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it .
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