Example sentences of "would have [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
| 2 | In order to determine the probabilities of such singular histories , one would have to invoke some principle other than the known laws of science . |
| 3 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |
| 4 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 5 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 6 | Another area of debate was the revocability or modification of rights conferred upon third parties ; if they could be revoked without the third party 's consent then they could not be truly considered rights ; if they could not , the treaty parties would have surrendered some of their autonomy . |
| 7 | So expectations have been high , and companies would have felt some concern about the possible consequences of crossing the panel . |
| 8 | Many parents still expected their sons to have a ‘ sound ’ mathematics education and I 'm sure the idea of playing with bits of coloured paper and Sellotape instead of doing ‘ proper ’ maths like they had to , would have horrified some of our parents . |
| 9 | I would have liked some manual override on exposure settings , though the fill-in flash is some compensation . |
| 10 | I still wanted to add some more catfish and would have liked some of the Driftwood Cats , Tatia , or Auchenipterichthys , but could not find any , so I purchased four Whiptails , Rhineloricaria sp , and placed them in . |
| 11 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 12 | Even a girl like me that would have liked some of the things she had . |
| 13 | Oil industry officials said that Mexico would have to import some petrol products until a new 300,000 bpd plant was completed . |
| 14 | The scholastics would have recognized some such distinction . |
| 15 | Whereas the tax relief would have affected some 78,000,000 families , the proposed increases would have applied to only around 1,000,000 couples and individuals . |
| 16 | More fundamentally , even if we could invent a new investigative body , it too would have to be trained to produce reliable results , and for it too we would have to invent some sort of internal verification mechanism . |
| 17 | She would need some encouragement from her husband and he would have to display some discipline , ( a ) to provide the information for preparation of the budgets , and ( b ) to accept the result of the exercise and implement any necessary restrictions in buying , etc . |
| 18 | Oscar was not the only one who would have to muster some excuses in the near future : so would he . |
| 19 | By changing the adjective discreet into an adverb , this would have lost some of the force of the original , which attributes the behavioural quality of discretion metonymically to the door , an inanimate object which can not , in literal actuality , possess it . |
| 20 | The Nikkei average index , the main measure of performance in Tokyo , fell by 40 per cent during the year , or approximately US$1,500,000 million , and it was estimated that even dollar-denominated investments there would have lost some 35.4 per cent of their value . |
| 21 | We would have kept some food for you . ’ |
| 22 | Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action . |
| 23 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
| 24 | There is no doubt that Trodd would have done some things differently , or at least struggled hard to get them changed . |
| 25 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 26 | You know , some pre-literate tribe somewhere , with the medicine men of the tribes meeting an opposing medicine man of a tribe , they would have done some kind of ceremony beforehand . |
| 27 | To overcome and penetrate this formidable barrier , the British would have to devise some new tactic . |
| 28 | If he had not felt really bad he would never have drunk it all , he would have saved some for me . ’ |
| 29 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 30 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |