Example sentences of "you would have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 2 | ‘ You would have exchanged this place for a cousin ? ’ he said in frank disbelief . |
| 3 | How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves . |
| 4 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 5 | If it was a dunce , you would have done that . |
| 6 | That 's amazing that you went on holiday alone because surely you would have done much |
| 7 | The Mid-Craven Fault is so deep that if you were to look south of Malham for the limestone that you see on Gordale Scar you would have to drill many thousands of feet below the earth 's surface before you came to it . |
| 8 | The fact that we 've got partnership holders and sanctuary housing association , would seem to me that we 're quite likely to get relocation and we 've had all round the town at the moment , and you would have to agree that here is a very strong reason for , for the medical centre to be worried about the effect on the medical centre . |
| 9 | You would have made short work of the lock if you were inclined that way . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
| 12 | It 's just that you would have raised much more if you 'd sold the pair . |
| 13 | Notice that the prices quoted are the rough cost of buying a new item and £700 is what you would have to pay extra to create a whole new second machine . |
| 14 | Below S * you would have to pay more than it is worth to you to have the tree cut back further . |
| 15 | In order to do well at English at Oxford , you would have to show more than a purely aesthetic aptitude . |
| 16 | Ask yourself what you would have bought this cloth for . |
| 17 | To do so you would have to keep careful pedigree records of caddises bred in captivity , and breeding them is difficult . |
| 18 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 19 | As part of that appraisal , you would have taken some view . |
| 20 | Because after all the right decision is to find in terms of general happiness and so you would have thought that voting was the best way of finding out where their general happiness lies . |
| 21 | Yet you would have thought that you know , it was n't as if I were disrupting the class or anything . |
| 22 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 23 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |
| 24 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 25 | You would have thought these buses would |
| 26 | Yes , a Portakabin from which you would have to produce three cooked meals a day for roughly 2,000 people , including a turkey dinner with all the trimmings . |
| 27 | They please , I thought in context you would have got that . |
| 28 | With a 10° correction you would have to fly 6 nm before regaining track ( Fig 38a ) . |
| 29 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 30 | You would have to eat six or eight of these to put on weight . ’ |