Example sentences of "[adj] would have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example , when Family Allowances were finally accepted by the Treasury it was partly to avoid the risk of wartime inflation through wage rises and the more expensive — and some would have said more efficacious — solution of a minimum wage . |
| 2 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 3 | If you 'd have done it something else that would have looked really nice ! |
| 4 | If you knew the place in 1959 you 'd realise that lectures on Camus and Same would have fallen completely flat . |
| 5 | A Law government in 1915 would have included hardly any more MPs from a business background than Disraeli 's 1874 Ministry or Salisbury 's of 1895 . |