Example sentences of "they would have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would have to disclose commercial property holdings , share holdings , gifts received above a value of NZ$500 , and outside income . |
| 2 | They would have to put private money into public transport projects . |
| 3 | I think they would have made excellent doctors , now they are not doctors . |
| 4 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 5 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 6 | Her family survived the war in the occupied Dutch city of Arnhem , but they would have gone hungry as the Nazis retreated without the help of international aid groups . |
| 7 | If workers had been in the vicinity , they would have received high doses of radiation . |
| 8 | But they would have looked ridiculous alongside the others . |
| 9 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 10 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
| 11 | Some books are encountered too late , after the period when they would have had maximum impact . |
| 12 | They would have to make political judgements on how far to reduce standards of living . |
| 13 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
| 14 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 15 | They would have sacrificed young Hanvey as well . ’ |
| 16 | The new-style boards could not have worked as they were meant to ; and the misplaced expectation that they would have established industrial democracy would have collapsed . |
| 17 | From this it appears that they would have to become unrecognisable as potatoes before they could have been said to have perished . |
| 18 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 19 | Yet there was no widespread attack on aristocratic land-owners by those who suffered directly from their incurable indifference to country life — in spite of royal example they did not hunt , there was little shooting until the late nineteenth century , and they would have found English country-house life inconceivable . |
| 20 | The reindeers just would not have managed without him on this dark Christmas Eve , they would have got lost . |
| 21 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 22 | At one level , they would have supplied a range of services and facilities for a resident agricultural population and for travellers on the roads and rivers ; at another , they would have provided periodic or permanent markets for the surrounding countryside in exchange for agricultural products . |
| 23 | There were no discussions at all on the improvement of the peasant economy , despite the fact that they would have reaped quick propaganda rewards for the Bolshevik Party . |
| 24 | The slaves could come in , if need be , as support from the rear , resupplying the front line ; but Kit was loath to call on them at all , and they would have to fight unarmed . |