Example sentences of "would [verb] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence .
2 It was obvious that to base it on a villa one would need to have full access to the whole site and many more seasons — I imagined at least 15 .
3 and we would need to have national curriculum , name , date and so on which
4 A new classification would need to have unusual authority , to gain immediate and widespread acceptance , and to be assured of a steady and unshakeable future .
5 At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return .
6 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
7 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 .
8 If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions .
9 Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area .
10 Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle .
11 If alternative pathways of health care provision were used extensively we would have had serious underascertainment .
12 They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions .
13 Anne would have had good use for a machete .
14 Some books are encountered too late , after the period when they would have had maximum impact .
15 At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out .
16 Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime .
17 This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added .
18 A ‘ revolutionary committee ’ of barons seemed about to take control of the central government : the forest would have had short shrift from them .
19 he would have had fucking pen there would have been no working for them !
20 With the disappearance of temple-worship as such , this fell into misuse , but a new significance took its place , which would have had particular significance for Leonard 's parents and grandparents .
21 It might have been expected that such a paper from Nägeli , who was one of the most distinguished botanists in Europe at that time , would have had immense impact on the early development of plant ecology .
22 Er the , the original question I had is whether if they do n't go ahead er whether we would have to have new primary legislation to revert to the current Euro constituencies and I said no we would n't because there is a commencement date , there is a commencement date that er the er er Home Secretary would not put into effect until he was er quite certain that all the countries were on the start line and the the and and the new and the new constituencies er could actually come properly into effect and the six extra members would be elected .
23 Under the agreement , both countries would continue to have free trading arrangements as before .
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