Example sentences of "have [verb] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Law Commission recommended in 1976 , the test should be whether the granting of relief to an applicant who has delayed would cause substantial prejudice or hardship to any person or would be detrimental to good administration . |
| 2 | Calum MacDonald , the Western Isles MP , has tabled an amendment to the bill which the Government has conceded would wreck the treaty . |
| 3 | So much for the paperless office : Microsoft Corp claims that , stacked up , the manuals for the 100m copies of MD-DOS it has sold would reach to the moon and back — 10 times . |
| 4 | Obviously Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right . |
| 5 | Obviously , Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right . |
| 6 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 7 | ‘ Sakata and the redundancies they 'd guessed would happen . |
| 8 | Well , that that that shop had got so got some thicker board , I remember , and you said the size we 'd got would cut about two . |
| 9 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 10 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 11 | His blond head dipped briefly , as he refused her the possibility of completing what he must have guessed would have been a remonstrative retort . |
| 12 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 13 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 14 | Nothing John Smith as leader of the Opposition attack could have said would have been as damaging as the bitter words of Norman Lamont , speaking with all the knowledge and authority of a former key member of the Government . |
| 15 | However this was not a material irregularity ; the Court had heard the tape and had the jury done so , it would have confirmed their views , expressed in the verdict of guilty , because they would have heard the gruff , bass voice of the appellant , as described by the victim in his evidence , and any lingering hesitation they might have felt would have been dispelled . |
| 16 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 17 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 18 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 19 | As the dance continued , some of them began to snap their limbs about with convulsive movements that Ace would have thought would have dislocated those limbs in an instant . |
| 20 | I mean the one department you would have thought would have been enough . |
| 21 | Because the data , you see , the two lines , I would have thought would have been recorded |
| 22 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |
| 23 | If you have played DEFECT ( this means we have to look at the right hand column ) , the best card I could have played would have been DEFECT too . |
| 24 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 25 | The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views . |
| 26 | For one thing , there would be problems in establishing causation : showing that steps that a more energetic management might have taken would have made a difference to the company 's position would involve an assessment of complex and often imponderable factors . |
| 27 | What I really would have liked would have been to disappear with as little fuss as possible . |
| 28 | The kind of company he would most have liked would have been that of a family , his own . |
| 29 | ‘ Whatever cuts we would finally have to make would have to be spread over a shorter period , ’ he said . |
| 30 | To have agreed would have meant addressing the question of a return to political pluralism , an idea which was anathema to the Caudillo . |