Example sentences of "they would have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 2 | They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure . |
| 3 | They would have to disclose commercial property holdings , share holdings , gifts received above a value of NZ$500 , and outside income . |
| 4 | At this stage the society acknowledged they would have to undertake any work themselves . |
| 5 | If the judges in Elmer 's case had been strict conventionalists they would have decided that case in two stages . |
| 6 | But they would have said that anyway . |
| 7 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 8 | Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn . |
| 9 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 10 | For if species identification was the function of the stripes they would have diverged much more in the three cases . |
| 11 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 12 | I wonder if they would have done that with only SCUM ? |
| 13 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 14 | These exquisitely preserved gastropods are largely free of the enclosing matrix , and look now much as they would have done 60 million years ago . |
| 15 | You know , some pre-literate tribe somewhere , with the medicine men of the tribes meeting an opposing medicine man of a tribe , they would have done some kind of ceremony beforehand . |
| 16 | But Coun Shephard , who is chairman of the district 's environmental health committee , said he had spoken to two families who were told only last month they would have to wait 50 weeks . |
| 17 | In that case they would have obtained 50 per cent . |
| 18 | That , despite the recession and the fact that they would have to forfeit two weeks work . |
| 19 | Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it . |
| 20 | It was clear , too , that they would have to do this together . |
| 21 | If the Government had wanted to make the Bill an election winner , they would have seen that political advantage . |
| 22 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 23 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 24 | They would have lost each other . |
| 25 | The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat . |
| 26 | They would have to put private money into public transport projects . |
| 27 | If those threads were slack , they would have absorbed much of the energy of the returning hammer . |
| 28 | They were all also , in one way or another , prejudiced and snobbish , although they would have denied this with their dying breath . |
| 29 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 30 | I think they would have made excellent doctors , now they are not doctors . |