Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunter , one can assume , would have advocated chemical treatment of the entire body . |
| 2 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 3 | This the Society secured for solicitors conducting investment business exemption from the terms of the EC Investment Services Directive , which would have involved burdensome compliance with associated capital requirements . |
| 4 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 5 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 6 | If there had been a loose lamp-post in sight I probably would have grabbed that . |
| 7 | If it were consistent the government would have to view these variations too as evidence of inefficiency . |
| 8 | But the American economy depended a great deal on mass consumption — and higher wages would have enabled that consumption to continue to increase . |
| 9 | That would have enabled any controversial remark to be edited . |
| 10 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 11 | By 7th March 1940 , the Chief Ordnance Officer estimated that once Donnington was operational , the railway would have to carry 1,450 rail wagons ( 7,250 tons ) inward and 2.050 ( 10,250 tons ) outward each month ( an average 5 tons per wagon ) . |
| 12 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 13 | A station there would have constituted one of the wonders of the world . |
| 14 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
| 15 | The simplest inquiry by the hon. Gentleman would have ascertained that fact . |
| 16 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 17 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
| 18 | As Arsenal manager and given the importance of this player to the team , I would have accepted that . |
| 19 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
| 20 | You mean to say you ladies would have accepted red ? |
| 21 | ‘ He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’ |
| 22 | Well , Dominic would have played more but he could n't get in the blooming team ! |
| 23 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
| 24 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 25 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 26 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 27 | Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself . |
| 28 | At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down . |
| 29 | What might be called a conservative legal-constitutionalism is a consistent theme within Tory-Anglican thought throughout our period , even though not all Tory Anglicans would have argued such a position at all times with the same degree of commitment . |
| 30 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |