Example sentences of "would have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But who would 've made the drawings ? ’ asked Betty . |
| 2 | And I mean , when , when that man was in her house do n't you think she would 've changed the locks or something ? |
| 3 | What , would you say that would 've helped the growth of the economy even more ? |
| 4 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
| 5 | With a normal take-off the glider would have cleared the obstruction . |
| 6 | Four Cabinet Ministers , on the advice of the Attorney-General , signed declarations in an attempt to keep from the court documents which would have cleared the men . |
| 7 | The ace of clubs would have defeated the contract out of hand but East mysteriously returned a diamond . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | union membership in the design office and notwithstanding the fact that a strike would have involved the men in breaches of their contracts of employment , A notified B of the resolution passed by members of the union that if C was not dismissed , ‘ a withdrawal of labour of all A.E.S.D. Membership will take place . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The project would have involved the clear-felling of 800,000 hectares of tropical forest and its replacement by eucalyptus plantations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This erm approach would have enabled the council to obtain some capital receipts under the terms of the chancellor 's Autumn statement . |
| 21 | This would have enabled the locals to stay there and preserve their language and culture . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She did not know how long she would have to carry the child , or when it would be born ; she had no one to ask except Mrs Seager , who was still insistent that they go soon . |
| 24 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 25 | If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market . |
| 26 | If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Lily supposed the tartans to be fictitious : no self-respecting Scot would have accepted the commission if real clans were to be insulted . |
| 30 | 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 . |