Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example then all of you do the inimitable NMTs and would 've lost a mark , the real thing is when you 've got a time clause stop , think and really focus on this meaning of the verb in the time clause , right ? |
| 2 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
| 3 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 4 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 5 | ‘ I would 've hired a pro , ’ Dwayne says . |
| 6 | What , would you say that would 've helped the growth of the economy even more ? |
| 7 | And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody . |
| 8 | If I could 've chosen I would 've got a girl more sophisticated , talk awhile , have a few drinks then screw . |
| 9 | I would 've , me brother and I would 've got a pub in erm excuse me asking these questions because it 's a bit vague , you know |
| 10 | Somebody would 've put a match to it and set it on fire , we would have got money for going to deal with it . |
| 11 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
| 12 | With a normal take-off the glider would have cleared the obstruction . |
| 13 | The ace of clubs would have defeated the contract out of hand but East mysteriously returned a diamond . |
| 14 | In its original form , it would have involved a cost to the British taxpayer , to the Government and to employers of up to £500 million . |
| 15 | The judge said , the men 's defence would have involved a re-examination of the events of nineteen seventy four . |
| 16 | Some such process may have been originally responsible for the separation of England and France by the formation of the Straits of Dover , although this would have involved the breaching of a much broader barrier than the Purbeck-Isle of Wight ridge . |
| 17 | Is not it clear that a party which , a few years ago , was offering to do a deal with the Soviet leadership that would have involved the sacrifice of 100 per cent . |
| 18 | The former was never seriously in the running , for it would have involved the demolition of the caretaker 's house and garage , removed the First Forms ' playground and provided no new classrooms : indeed , if built , it would have rendered the 1937 extension itself too dark for further use . |
| 19 | It would have involved the country 's first overseas military deployment since 1945 , and was opposed by the domestic opposition and by several of Japan 's Asian neighbours . |
| 20 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
| 22 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 23 | This erm approach would have enabled the council to obtain some capital receipts under the terms of the chancellor 's Autumn statement . |
| 24 | She did not know how long she would have to carry the child , or when it would be born ; she had no one to ask except Mrs Seager , who was still insistent that they go soon . |
| 25 | More than that , it would have constituted a breach of rules of respect for elders , a denial of social hierarchy inculcated throughout infancy , boyhood , schooldays . |
| 26 | The detractors say they are relative newcomers who would have constituted a gamble . |
| 27 | Politeness and kindness would have constituted a refusal . |
| 28 | In the following years , he would have undertaken a vision quest similar to that described by the Nez Perce warrior Yellow Wolf : |
| 29 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 30 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |