Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] would [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more .
2 I dismissed this concept because the seriality of placement would have imposed a formal composition on the hall isolating the installation from the conditions and functions of the architecture .
3 In a poll of Anglican Clergy undertaken in 1864 only 40% expressed the view that the damned would suffer everlasting torment ; it may be assumed that a poll of laity would have disclosed a substantially lower percentage.ii .
4 The firm application of market methods of control would have yielded a rise in interest rates which would have provided , albeit more slowly , the allocative mechanism rather than the banks having to discriminate against one customer in favour of another .
5 A general right of accession would have created a major inroad into the continuing bilateralism of even multilateral treaties .
6 Now if the polymer had been crystallizable the curve of the specific volume against temperature would have shown a discontinuity at the melting point as in Figure 3.12 .
7 Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world .
8 If words had weight , a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship .
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