Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had got so used to the straight criss-crossing North-South , East-West roads of most American cities that I would have to acquire a taste for the more complex and possibly much more fascinating spread of London lanes . |
| 32 | Analysis of these projects suggested that if such control were to be achieved , local people would have to acquire the motivation and skills to be able to organize themselves into effective action groups able to negotiate with public authorities . |
| 33 | However , it seems unlikely that the British parent did not back Mr Nathan 's proposal , which would have secured a price for Imigran similar to that in Britain . |
| 34 | In March 1986 , the Iranians wanted Phoenix missiles ; in October they wanted 100 Howitzers plus 500 barrels , for which , as Cave told them , any country in the world would have to open a production line . |
| 35 | The Deputy Chief Constable , in his parade uniform , would have to manage the inspection without the assistance of his head of C.I.D . |
| 36 | If our Lord had been resurrected only as a spirit it would have signified a victory over the spiritual world but the fact that it was a physical resurrection shows his sovereignty over history and the created world . |
| 37 | The procession takes place whatever the weather but Mr Cecil Hitch thought one year they would have to call a halt because of the terrible conditions . |
| 38 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 39 | In this predominantly part-time area only 47% of wives would have tackled an emergency themselves yet 74% indicated a desire to be able to do more on the farm . |
| 40 | I sound like Piers , she thought suddenly , when a few months ago I would have giggled a bit at a remark like that . |
| 41 | Then they would have to sell the farm . |
| 42 | Few Europeans would have contested the view that they should be organized politically in sovereign states . |
| 43 | But to attract the funds needed to capitalize , NoS would have to persuade a merchant bank to sponsor it , which would inevitably lead to confrontation over the Right-On organizational principles on which the project was based . |
| 44 | This criterion was strictly interpreted : litigants would have to persuade the court that the decision had ‘ no rational basis whatsoever , ’ and not surprisingly few managed to do so . |
| 45 | Without the miniaturization that they bring , the powerful personal computer of today would have remained an impossibility . |
| 46 | It can be no accident that the opinion of the police officer is now sought on matters which once would have remained the province of the archbishop and his clergy . |
| 47 | Under the Working Paper 's proposals , therefore , vaginal penetration by the penis would have remained the focus of sexual offences legislation . |
| 48 | This would have remained the impression if Scriven had not been followed by Dr David Fowler of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ( ITE ) . |
| 49 | " If I 'd wanted to spend over five hours on the golf course I would have become a greenkeeper and not a professional golfer . " |
| 50 | This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel . |
| 51 | It was also widely believed that he would have become the laibon after his father 's death . |
| 52 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 53 | This , at its most exalted , represented the aspiration of Owenism ; and though few Owenites would have heard the song , when the time came for the countless host to stream in through gates of pearl , that surely is what they could have sung as they marched . |
| 54 | A human would have heard the click and buzz of crickets and other small mysterious creatures whose role in life is to sit in bushes all night and make noises that are a lot bigger than they are . |
| 55 | It was n't the van arriving for he would have heard the engine , and it could n't be Joe Maitland . |
| 56 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 57 | If the right hon. Gentleman had paid more attention to the CBI yesterday , he would have heard the director general say that since the crash of October 1987 , real take-home pay is up by 11 per cent. , manufacturing productivity is up by 20 per cent . |
| 58 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 59 | He would have to lock the boot but he would leave the key in the ignition . |
| 60 | Would have abashed a storm-trooper . |