Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 2 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most extraordinary of all the peculiar things that the Chancellor has said during his period in office was his comment on , I believe , 8 January : ’ the policy would not have been different had we known the outcome ’ . |
| 4 | Now we have their final assurance that things ’ would not have been different had we known the outcome . ’ |
| 5 | If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available . |
| 6 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 7 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 8 | ‘ She would not have been able to resist him , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ And in Jamaica I would not have been able to do it . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Alice — did n't you think — you might not have been able to do your training . |
| 11 | ‘ Not only would she have put your sister to some considerable nuisance , for I would not have been able to see her had things gone according to schedule … ’ |
| 12 | If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there . |
| 13 | She might not have been able to see his expression , but she could definitely see his smile — and it was n't a very nice one . |
| 14 | There was no new money , for Bolivia would not have been able to service it . |
| 15 | The heat of his body was like a magnet and she knew she would not have been able to move her hand even if he had let her . |
| 16 | Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him . |
| 17 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 18 | Towards the end of his life , assessing the course of events in India , Irwin did write that ‘ Though they might not have been able to put it into words ’ , the British people had realized |
| 19 | Jim said : ‘ In the end I had to accept his £4,500 offer and write the rest off — otherwise I would not have been able to pay my men 's wages that week . |
| 20 | Perhaps a surgeon might normally have chosen somewhere with a little more style , but a young and newly-admitted man might not have been able to afford anything better . |
| 21 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 22 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |
| 23 | Observers around the track might not have been able to hear my orgasmic bellowing , but they could plainly see that a mental rivet had shaken loose inside my helmet . |
| 24 | You will have spotted the chub , or signs of them , from some distance up or downstream , because you will not have been able to approach them upright on an open bank without them spotting you first . |
| 25 | Without that mask he would probably not have been able to complete his con . |
| 26 | But without the help of ACET and other voluntary organisations I would not have been able to maintain my independence . ’ |
| 27 | Millwall chairman Reg Burr says : ‘ Many people would not have been surprised had he been sent off . |
| 28 | Dalziel 's superiors would not have been happy to see him . |
| 29 | As Raoul would not have been ashamed to put it , he was like a wild young colt . |
| 30 | He then said that the program would not have been patentable had it been stored on a floppy disk . |