Example sentences of "[noun] would have [vb pp] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the great advantages that we had in the ‘ twenties was comparatively safe and clear streets , parked cars would have stopped many of our games and I imagine that tops would not have been popular with car owners . |
| 2 | One was the failure of the self- regulatory body I M R O and the second one was really the fact that he was able to change his financial year end from April ninety-one to December ninety-one and during that period he was able to do things with those erm those funds in his accounts and er and really there was , there was no check on that , and I do n't see that the that was in er Good would have changed much of that situation at that end . |
| 3 | Another area of debate was the revocability or modification of rights conferred upon third parties ; if they could be revoked without the third party 's consent then they could not be truly considered rights ; if they could not , the treaty parties would have surrendered some of their autonomy . |
| 4 | The Sheikha was completely veiled but , I knew her eyes would have turned black with distress . |
| 5 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 6 | Gary Lineker would have looked great in that , not to mention Gazza . |
| 7 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 8 | Probably many urban employers in the new forms of manufacture would have liked more of their workers to have become self-disciplined Methodists , but it was the employers of the village-dwelling miners who could already appreciate the benefits by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Certainly , a successful coup would have offered potential for a dangerous new version of a ‘ stab-in-the-back ’ legend . |
| 10 | ‘ Old Keithie would have made more of it , but this 'll do . |
| 11 | In the same way that the jobbing funeral furnisher was unable to undertake the obsequies of the nobility , likewise the top cabinet-makers would have refused some of their lesser clients , referring them to one of more able members of the trade . |
| 12 | We calculate from regression that A/g of oats and mustard would have increased 14.1 to 16.4mmol CO 2 per mol H 2 O , respectively , with the increase from 275 to 350μmolmol -1 CO 2 that has occurred since 1800 . |
| 13 | Roslavl' officials would have lain quieter in their beds at night if they had bothered to read Maxim Gorky 's book On the Russian Peasantry published that same year . |
| 14 | They may reawaken memories of happier times-'my husband would have done that in five minutes ' . |
| 15 | The Royal Commission on Police Powers would have confined this to " grave offences . " |
| 16 | Batty would have been useful in this match … not only in the playing sense , but we had lots of throw ins level with their box , Batty would have got these into a danger area … |
| 17 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 18 | Gaps were left for the doorways and the resulting trench would have measured 22.1 × 8.5 metres , although it was slightly wider at the middle of the long sides . |
| 19 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 20 | The inclusion of a Tallmantz B–25 cameraship would have done much for both the dogfights and the other air-to-air formation shots . |
| 21 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 22 | Each whirring stroke of the razor-edged steel would have sliced clean through a human limb with almost as much ease as it cut the air . |
| 23 | It is normally assumed that a given variable would have remained constant in the absence of integration . |
| 24 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 25 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 26 | Bowbazaar links Calcutta 's business district with the hugely-crowded Sealdah suburban railway terminus and an explosion of this intensity during daytime would have killed hundreds of people , he said . |
| 27 | To attack their anti-racist policies would have exposed Labour to ( more ) accusations of racism ; far easier to attack the much less extensive lesbian and gay policies ; and if that meant abandoning lesbians and gays to isolation and intimidation , so be it . |
| 28 | IF CORPORATE governance and the virtues or vices of free financial markets had been agonised over as much in 1985 as they are now , continental Europe would have ruined many of the most popular and simplistic conclusions . |
| 29 | If Claudine had been just slightly nicer , Jenna would have felt sorry for her . |
| 30 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |