Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the indications were that by the end of 1991 the Soviet economy would have registered a severe , possibility catastrophic deterioration . |
| 2 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |
| 3 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 4 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 5 | The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views . |
| 6 | The measure , which would have involved the first overseas deployment of Japanese forces since 1945 , was condemned by the opposition as unconstitutional ( it was argued that Article 9 of Japan 's post-war Constitution prohibited the country 's participation in acts of collective defence ) and by the governments of many of Japan 's neighbours as an undesirable manifestation of nascent Japanese militarism . |
| 7 | The project would have involved the clear-felling of 800,000 hectares of tropical forest and its replacement by eucalyptus plantations . |
| 8 | To attempt to calculate the cost for the long-stay psychogeriatric wards in the particular hospitals in the project would have involved an observational study of all the staff who had an input , for example doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , social workers , community psychiatric nurses , etc to see how much time they spent directly with the patients in the long-stay wards and how much time they spent indirectly in work connected with these patients such as in case conferences , meetings , administrative work , telephone calls and so on . |
| 9 | Though there had been in the years leading up to 1832 theoretical choice between these two ways forward , towards political democracy or towards industrial democracy , few would have distinguished the two so sharply before the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 10 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 11 | This would have to carry the 3.0 m ewes which the Meat and Livestock Commission consider would be needed to provide the present contribution , 50% of national lamb production , from upland and hill ewes as well as the 800,000 or so cows receiving subsidy . |
| 12 | The Haifa Bay route would have constituted a serious disruption as it passed overland through intensively developed urban and farming areas to the Jordan Valley , destroying property and agricultural land . |
| 13 | The presence of such ‘ advisers ’ would have constituted a severe infringement of China 's political autonomy . |
| 14 | If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market . |
| 15 | If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market . |
| 16 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 18 | Oh no I would have played the nine anyway . |
| 19 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 20 | These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull . |
| 21 | He walked into a Ladbrokes betting shop at Hexham , Northumberland , six days later and demanded his winnings , unaware that the payout for the bet would have totalled a staggering £3,826,470,000,000,000 . |
| 22 | I would have to sell the second vase . |
| 23 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 24 | In this respect the CNAA 's central concerns would have remained the same whatever policy governments formulated , so long as there were ‘ non-university ’ institutions seeking approval for their courses under the terms of the CNAA 's Charter . |
| 25 | First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi , then , when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south , he would have launched the real attack to the west . |
| 26 | In short , the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house . |
| 27 | It is estimated that the basin would have become no deeper than about 5 km , and as today Mare Imbrium is of negligible depth there could be up to about 5 km of infill . |
| 28 | Had Everton lost , then there is no doubt that the mutterings of discontent around Goodison Park would have become an audible cry challenging Kendall 's leadership . |
| 29 | IF DAVID HOCKNEY had been born in 1837 instead of 1937 , he would have become an Olympian rather than a Californian . |
| 30 | He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that . |