Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [noun pl] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most kids these days would have enjoyed the spectacle , told their mates , and never thought about reporting the events to the local police . |
| 2 | There is no need to go beyond that , although in many circumstances such persons would have had a duty , either legal or moral . |
| 3 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 4 | The market price for these purposes is the price which in normal business dealings those goods would have fetched on the date when the buyer should have accepted the goods . |
| 5 | However , it seems most unlikely that from the media coverage any readers would have disbelieved the accounts of the two teenage girls , especially given the number of men involved . |
| 6 | Before the Macintosh such capabilities would have cost around £25,000 . |
| 7 | I had acted with some courage and endurance — and even intelligence , I hope — in a situation many men would have found hopeless . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw exactly what he did and if it had n't been for Stuart those thieves would have got away . |
| 9 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 10 | Trust clauses made this easier ; in time many testators would have employed them , as the proliferation of such clauses in the documents suggests . |