Example sentences of "would have had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She would have had every reason to look the other way .
2 Levi , the expert on metals , would have had no difficulty in telling the difference between gold and tin .
3 For Mrs Thatcher , the timing of President de Klerk 's announcement in the week before the Commonwealth conference is helpful , though she would have had no difficulty in resisting pressure there for further sanctions .
4 There was so much hostility to his Catholicism and his attack on chartered rights that it might have been thought William and Mary would have had no difficulty establishing their authority in America , but this was not what happened .
5 By the middle of the twelfth century , John 's French readers would have had no difficulty in making the necessary identifications : castellans and viscounts , baillis and prévôts , household officers , the clerks , knights , and chamberlains of princely courts abounded .
6 Charlie Williams took his number 14 bus to Shaftesbury Avenue , looked at Ken 's name in lights and had he heard anyone say anything against ‘ the boy ’ would have had no difficulty in punching him one .
7 But 300 years ago , a boy a quarter of his age , would have had no difficulty with double the number of oxen .
8 Equally , Mrs Smith argued , the common law would have had no difficulty in affording a right of action to parents in a case such as the present one .
9 The handicapped child , who would eventually have to move into society , would be ill-equipped to face that society 's tensions and realities whilst the ‘ normal ’ child would have had no experience , during the impressionable and formative years , of relating to the disabled .
10 I do n't know whether there was anyone there from BBC Television , but if there was , he or she would have had no doubt who should be the person to present a regular natural history programme if and when they got round to it .
11 Their medieval neighbours who considered their conduct unneighbourly , unjust and unfair , would have had no hesitation in attempting to tighten their looseness in the interests of the common good .
12 ‘ If I had known the mouthpiece was sterile , I would have had no hesitation in agreeing to the test .
13 Siward , the man who , had he , Thorfinn , been standing under that cross and issuing that challenge instead of a priest , would have had no hesitation in ordering his best marksman to smite him dead with his bow or his javelin .
14 He would have had no hesitation in sending the Bishop back to Saxony by celestial transport , save that at that moment the Normans emerged again from the wood .
15 Or , of course , if she is muzzled , she may have been killed by other predators against which she would have had no defence .
16 The Hammonds would have had no defence to an action for the price .
17 Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty .
18 It should be noted that the accused would have had no defence to a charge of obtaining property by deception by switching the price labels .
19 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
20 The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive .
21 It is currently in the final stages of negotiations for a very important order from Malaysia which , had it not been the competitive and effective yard that it now is , it would have had no chance of getting .
22 I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there .
23 But in Locke 's day it was normal and Locke 's contemporaries I think would have had no problem understanding this what he meant .
24 Little Nell , perceived in a commonplace context , would have had no purchase on his imagination .
25 Some would have had no sleep .
26 ‘ That was because I assumed that the business would go to Francis and then I would have had no say in it . ’
27 Faith would have had no patience with it .
28 She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper .
29 Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done .
30 Donaldson would have had no option but to make arrangements for the delegation , even though he may have been well aware of what the reaction would be .
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