Example sentences of "would [verb] have a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 3 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 4 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 5 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 6 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 7 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 8 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 9 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 10 | The government , at no additional cost to the Exchequer , would have had a greater impact on the individual 's welfare . |
| 11 | As at today 's date , she was at the age of twenty , as she i , as at today 's date she , at the age of twenty four , would have had a further working life of thirty six years . |
| 12 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 13 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 14 | There , the team would attempt to have a narrower range of appeal but a greater oneness with the clients to whom they are trying to appeal . |
| 15 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 16 | Much of our thinking would seem to have a more-or-less pictorial character , after all . |