Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were closed down suppose 750 of the men would not expect to find another job and would have to live off social security payments . |
| 2 | This was a visionary proposal which would have brought economic and foreign policy matters within the ambit of the Union decision-making process , would have strengthened the position of the EC Commission , would have phased out national vetoes to which I referred above and have given the EP an enhanced law-making ( as opposed to its largely consultative ) role . |
| 3 | Maybe Henry would have ended up warped and perverse but his unofficial education among the elite certainly helped him along the way . |
| 4 | I part company with the Committee in a small way on its comment that those developments would have come about irrespective of our privatisation proposals . |
| 5 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 6 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 7 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 8 | No man as prudent as William Titford would have paid out good money for a family grave unless he had some firm evidence that there would eventually be some bodies to put in it . |
| 9 | She would have burned up extra calories , thus helping to speed her weight loss still more . |