Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kiosk would 've done good business today , ’ thought Marie . |
| 2 | but you probably would 've missed other things . |
| 3 | Hunter , one can assume , would have advocated chemical treatment of the entire body . |
| 4 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 5 | This the Society secured for solicitors conducting investment business exemption from the terms of the EC Investment Services Directive , which would have involved burdensome compliance with associated capital requirements . |
| 6 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 7 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 8 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 9 | Without the republicans the Labour left would have remained abstract propagandists ; without the Labour left , the republicans would have been less able to communicate to people in Derry and beyond . |
| 10 | The government would have more to spend , at the same time as real output would have risen offsetting unemployment . |
| 11 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 12 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 13 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 14 | It would have freed numerous troops from guard and patrol work . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the low sea level would have killed existing corals , which do not survive above low tide level as a rule , so that there ought to be discontinuities in the reefs , and , if those who believe in progressively lower interglacial sea levels are correct , the reefs should exhibit a terraced or stepped form . |
| 16 | But it would have damaged local democracy . |
| 17 | Coronary patency was also measured in the HART study at 1 week , when the low dose of aspirin would have achieved full effect ; the patency rates in initially patent vessels were 88% in the heparin group and 95% in the aspirin group . |
| 18 | They would have to disclose commercial property holdings , share holdings , gifts received above a value of NZ$500 , and outside income . |
| 19 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 20 | If there had been room in the hallway , he would have swung Wee Charlie round in a circle . |
| 21 | The vet said he would have undergone prolonged suffering and an extreme amount of pain , because the first pellet would n't have killed him . |
| 22 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 23 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land . |
| 25 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 26 | A union would have to issue written warnings to all those members it had learned were threatening an unofficial stoppage telling them that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued . |
| 27 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 28 | We would have to import skilled workers from abroad . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Unable to pump in compressed air to equalise the water pressure — the air pressure required would have exceeded legal limits — Fairclough and Thames had to find a machine that could operate under such conditions . |