Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kiosk would 've done good business today , ’ thought Marie . |
| 2 | and that was what , I mean if they had erm decided to take more te point of view and to increase production through improved methods of farming and so on , that prob erm I mean we can see that that would 've created higher yields and that , because we 've assessed the situation now |
| 3 | but you probably would 've missed other things . |
| 4 | Because I would 've thought most golf |
| 5 | Hunter , one can assume , would have advocated chemical treatment of the entire body . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 10 | But the American economy depended a great deal on mass consumption — and higher wages would have enabled that consumption to continue to increase . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
| 13 | The simplest inquiry by the hon. Gentleman would have ascertained that fact . |
| 14 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 15 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
| 16 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
| 17 | ‘ He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’ |
| 18 | At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down . |
| 19 | David McCathie fought back from 22–12 down at 17 ends and almost pulled off a five on the last which would have secured another point for Essex but Paul Maynard continued his winning momentum to ensure the overall venue win . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The government would have more to spend , at the same time as real output would have risen offsetting unemployment . |
| 22 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In his travels throughout the galaxy doubtless Googol would have heard many rumours , despite best official efforts to suppress scaremongering talk . |
| 27 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |
| 28 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 29 | It would have freed numerous troops from guard and patrol work . |
| 30 | Before that there was a string of flops stretching back over years ( ‘ Police Academy 4 ’ and ‘ King Solomon 's Mines ’ would have ended most careers ) . |