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 . |