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

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1 They had found the answer to the American conundrum , and they assured themselves that no other people on earth would have had the qualities necessary to do so .
2 Then William and Harry would have had the support of their parents during what must undoubtedly be a very traumatic time for them .
3 I always wondered where the money for dean came from , we should have held onto chapman , strenghten our back four , and would have had the money to hold onto Batty .
4 If the test case had been successful , 200,000 motorists guilty of failing to supply samples would have had the chance to appeal .
5 Had he not done so , another hon. Member would have obliged , and we would have had the chance to debate the matter and to make the points which have been made with such eloquence and fervour on both sides of the House .
6 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
7 For I have no doubt that , had this been the case , the great American artist , given the purity of his motivation , would have had the courtesy to apprise the Italian artist of his project .
8 So much torrential rain fell overnight and throughout the day of the finals that the organisers decided to dispense with scrums and let the team who would have had the scrum take a free-kick instead .
9 If she had been hurt , he would have had the slave bastinadoed .
10 Had it been the director with a retained shareholding of 30 shares who had died on 31 December 1986 , his estate too would have had the benefit of business assets relief , but at a lower percentage deduction .
11 That way St Anthony 's would have had the benefit of her cooking .
12 These earlier studies were performed before the recognition of H pylori and most of the patients included would have had the infection .
13 A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ .
14 She would not have minded if he had yelled at her , for he would have had the right to .
15 The Court of Appeal said that the plaintiffs would have had the right to review Coopers ' decision only if there could be implied into the original agreement words describing this kind of challenge which qualified the " final and binding " description of the decision in the appropriate manner .
16 Jones taunted Cooke : ‘ Hey Alec , if you 'd caught that one you would have had the record . ’
17 They were willing to accept a cut in transitional benefit which would have had the effect of ‘ throwing at least some of those receiving transitional benefit upon public assistance ’ , while Henderson pressed hard for a ‘ premium ’ , a flat deduction of 1s. a week from all unemployment benefits .
18 The Commissioner had gone too far and had given a ruling that would have had the effect of preventing the Crown from leading evidence which , as a matter of law , was admissible .
19 This would have had the effect of endowing York with metropolitan status as Pope Gregory the Great had originally intended and it is likely that Eadwine , on Bede 's testimony a thoughtful and sagacious individual ( HE 11 , 9 ) , appreciated the significance of this development .
20 This logical change would have had the effect of encouraging the diversion of more people from court proceedings .
21 On the substantive point , my hon. Friend will know that I agree with him , for I refused earlier this week to agree in Europe to the sort of laws that would have had the effect my hon. Friend sets out .
22 All would have had the effect of removing Özal .
23 This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable
24 Point Three was the stumbling block , for the only significant alternative to the equitable Straits Convention of 1841 was completely to eliminate Russian naval power in the Black Sea , which would have had the effect of handing control of the region to the British .
25 This would have had the effect of changing the basis of compensation for land publicly acquired from a market value ( net of tax ) basis to a current use value basis , that is , its value in its existing use , taking no account of any increase in value actually or potentially conferred by the grant of a planning permission for new development .
26 Towards the end of the Attorney General 's speech , George Robertson , Labour 's foreign affairs spokesman , pressed for a motion which would have had the effect of delaying progress on the bill to be put to the vote .
27 Merrill watched him covertly , wondering if she would have had the courage to sit here if she had known that he would come in ; wondering if she would have joined another and more distant club had she known that he was the commodore here .
28 Ohka 33 would have had the endurance to permit a second or third attempt should the first death-dive have been miscalculated .
29 He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing .
30 ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward .
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