Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had functioned in the community , not just in his family up until … you know , with a lung function that would have kept a lot of people in bed , and he was reading , writing — he had published an article shortly before his hospitalization , and he was a very forceful fellow . |
| 2 | The strings available to Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran in the mid-'50s would have ranged from medium ( .011-.52 or more ) to heavy ( .013-.60 ) gauge and would have included a wound third . |
| 3 | His summing-up left the jury in no doubt about his own views and would have required a jury of quite exceptional perversity to have brought in a guilty verdict . |
| 4 | And , after two weeks that would have cracked a lesser man , Taylor proved he still has what it takes to ensure that England can qualify to be one of the outside contenders . |
| 5 | We now propose a council tax that would have produced a bill this year of £617 . |
| 6 | She was always impressed by his fame and would have liked a theatrical career . |
| 7 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 8 | Somehow containing her fury , she flashed him a smile that would have made a lesser man shrivel . |
| 9 | Luke Calder sat down on the settee , pulling Fran down next to him as he favoured her with a smile that would have made a lesser woman fall in a grateful little heap at his feet . |
| 10 | She went , with a glare at Luke Denner that would have turned a lesser man to stone . |
| 11 | Kersey 's face split into a grin that would have intimidated a gorilla . |
| 12 | Only then did the American boy notice his extraordinarily long curling fingernails , the mark of a high-ranking courtier that would have made a Western-style handshake awkward and discomfiting for both parties . |
| 13 | Certainly they were all rooting for him and just as certainly Harvey responded , and he did things that night that would have attracted a talent scout from the Bolshoi . |
| 14 | Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach . |
| 15 | Emitting a stink that would have made a Tyryttiaki swamp mist seem fragrant . |
| 16 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 17 | Jackie took a swallow that would have washed a hog out of his pen . |
| 18 | He took a pinch of snuff that would have fired a cannon . |
| 19 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
| 20 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 21 | He clasped her about the waist , she pushed him away with a gesture that would have felled a man . |
| 22 | Roy Cohn , twenty-seven , with a legal background , was the more serious of the two , with an unappealing scowl and an arrogance that would have befitted a crown prince of Prussia . |
| 23 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 24 | The sort of person Moran was would have been an IRA person and belonged to the IRA at the foundation of the country and would have had a tricolour on his coffin . |
| 25 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |
| 26 | Some women had stockingsful of stones that would have felled a bullock . |