Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
2 | With a normal take-off the glider would have cleared the obstruction . |
3 | The ace of clubs would have defeated the contract out of hand but East mysteriously returned a diamond . |
4 | In its original form , it would have involved a cost to the British taxpayer , to the Government and to employers of up to £500 million . |
5 | The judge said , the men 's defence would have involved a re-examination of the events of nineteen seventy four . |
6 | Some such process may have been originally responsible for the separation of England and France by the formation of the Straits of Dover , although this would have involved the breaching of a much broader barrier than the Purbeck-Isle of Wight ridge . |
7 | Is not it clear that a party which , a few years ago , was offering to do a deal with the Soviet leadership that would have involved the sacrifice of 100 per cent . |
8 | The former was never seriously in the running , for it would have involved the demolition of the caretaker 's house and garage , removed the First Forms ' playground and provided no new classrooms : indeed , if built , it would have rendered the 1937 extension itself too dark for further use . |
9 | It would have involved the country 's first overseas military deployment since 1945 , and was opposed by the domestic opposition and by several of Japan 's Asian neighbours . |
10 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
11 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
12 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
13 | This erm approach would have enabled the council to obtain some capital receipts under the terms of the chancellor 's Autumn statement . |
14 | More than that , it would have constituted a breach of rules of respect for elders , a denial of social hierarchy inculcated throughout infancy , boyhood , schooldays . |
15 | The detractors say they are relative newcomers who would have constituted a gamble . |
16 | Politeness and kindness would have constituted a refusal . |
17 | In the following years , he would have undertaken a vision quest similar to that described by the Nez Perce warrior Yellow Wolf : |
18 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
19 | She would have accepted the situation as it was . |
20 | Lily supposed the tartans to be fictitious : no self-respecting Scot would have accepted the commission if real clans were to be insulted . |
21 | If Carson had been predictably agreeable and obviously interested she would have accepted the lift and that , apart perhaps from the promise of a follow-up lunch some time , would have been the end of it . |
22 | She had hoped that Rosie Lane at least , who was usually willing to try anything once , would have accepted the challenge , but she demurred , pleading a headache , and Janice told her , in mysterious tones , as though provided with obscene , private information , that she would be mad to go to such a place , that it was rough there , and wicked beyond all Clara 's pitiful conceptions of wickedness , and that if she went there anything might happen to her . |
23 | He would have applied a multiplier of 12 . |
24 | If the will had been there and secure accommodation and prison accommodation had been available , I suggest that magistrates would have applied the law in the way that was intended when that legislation was passed . |
25 | Defending solicitor Mr. Blundell asked the magistrates to consider whether Mr. Thurgood would have played the part of peacemaker and then gone out and attacked the soldiers ' car . |
26 | If anyone had challenged Frederica directly as to whether she believed that , she would have argued the toss . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | I sound like Piers , she thought suddenly , when a few months ago I would have giggled a bit at a remark like that . |