Example sentences of "would [verb] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 2 | So erm so we decided I wish we 'd have had erm I wish sometimes we 'd have had that radiator on that wall . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt if you 'd have had any choice , ’ said Hugh with sympathy , ‘ and certainly you have none now . ’ |
| 4 | I think perhaps , as I say , I 'd have had some colour . |
| 5 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you 'd have had another reason for me not to stay on board . ’ |
| 7 | You 'd have thought he 'd have had more sense . ’ |
| 8 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 9 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 10 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 11 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
| 12 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 13 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 14 | The loops and rings around it would have had small bells attached to them , and at the broken end would have been a piece of coral or ivory to act as a teether . |
| 15 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 16 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 17 | Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle . |
| 18 | If alternative pathways of health care provision were used extensively we would have had serious underascertainment . |
| 19 | If this had not been the case , we would have had serious reservations about participation . |
| 20 | Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge , more appropriately to their characters , would have had nervous breakdowns . |
| 21 | It is a conclusion about an almost psychiatric effect ( and comfort ) offered by serious drama which Aristotle would have had much sympathy with . |
| 22 | But she did n't see that she would have had much choice . |
| 23 | In life the tellin would have had two valves , but only one is preserved here . |
| 24 | Without this disparity it would have had an overall entitlement of 38 seats , and instead of winning one excess seat it would have had two list seats in addition to the 36 it won in constituencies . |
| 25 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 26 | Difficulties were thought to arise over reaching agreement on a headquarters for a merged society , which would have had 75,000 customers and combined assets of £350m . |
| 27 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 28 | They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions . |
| 29 | Magazines such as Majesty and Royal Monthly would have had little hope of survival in the 1960s or 1970s . |
| 30 | In 1938 Sartre , who by his own admission was still mystified to the core by bourgeois idealist presuppositions , would have had little sympathy for theories linking the technical structure of the novel to the historical reality of contemporary French society . |