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

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1 O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little .
2 I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents .
3 With a range of 10,000 miles , the aircraft could have managed its mission although each sortie would have taken nearly thirty hours !
4 If that crossroads was lost , then Napoleon would have successfully swung the two doors apart .
5 Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult .
6 It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter .
7 However for a load torque of 0.4 Nm the maximum operating speed would have to be limited to 200 steps per second and there would be additional problems in operating at speeds around 20 and 40 steps per second .
8 However for a load torque of 1 Nm the maximum speed would have to be restricted to 200 steps per second and the positioning time would be 1000/200 = 5 seconds .
9 He paused and then said , not realising the effect his words would have , ‘ I may go along and see this Vigo . ’
10 If the dispute had ended there , the exchange of words would have passed into football folklore as further evidence of Gallacher 's greatness , but the bad boy from Bellshill had only just begun .
11 The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears .
12 If this were not so , Paul 's words would have contradicted what Jesus teaches .
13 His last words would have made a fine song title .
14 Had she been alone with Luke , no doubt his words would have been spiked with malice .
15 Order , for example can function as a noun or as a verb and the transition probabilities of both senses to following words would have to be computed .
16 Mr Wyatt said action would have to be taken at the Total Power Tools offshoot , which has not been performing well .
17 The party 's new policy is that workers taking sympathy action would have to demonstrate a ‘ genuine interest ’ in any dispute .
18 Pursuing legal action would have cost them money they did n't have ( unless it meant selling their house which was not an option ) but doing nothing left them with the feeling that justice was n't being done .
19 Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order .
20 Nor do I think the bank had any idea of the effect its action would have : that it would potentially create a loss for itself and other creditors . ’
21 After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed .
22 To translate this new legal status into political action would have required an organised support basis and this did not exist .
23 Adams , for instance , says , of the historical analysis of discourses of ‘ mothering ’ she suggests , that ‘ it is unclear what purchase political action would have ’ on it ( 1983 : 51 ) .
24 What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected .
25 For , so he elaborately argues , one can not , if one really thinks it through , accept the total set of prescriptions implied by any universal ethical rules except those which attach weight , in proportion to their strength , to the desirability of satisfying the desires which everyone affected by an action would have if they possessed proper prudence .
26 Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors , then a more collective account of social action would have emerged .
27 The Truman administration recognised the catastrophic deterioration and determined at the beginning of August that action would have to be taken .
28 Parliament could not have intended paragraph ( b ) to produce new substantive rights in respect of registered land , enabling registered dispositions to be set aside and removed from the register in circumstances where , if the land had not been registered , no cause of action would have existed .
29 If the place had carried the distinct imprint of Carson 's personality the action would have fitted in easily , but the apartment was strangely arid in its elegance and she was sure that she would feel unsettled .
30 He was sure that the clauses extending police action would have a beneficial effect on national morality .
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