Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] would have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Of course your weight would n't change , so neither could the amount of displaced water ; an arm or leg would have to stick up instead . ) |
| 2 | One can see that , fanciful though the idea of the co-operative community is bound to look in the light of the later development of the Industrial Revolution , in 1814 when he wrote A New View of Society that idea would have seemed quite credible . |
| 3 | Occasionally I would take her into the lounge and Mum would have to keep back and hold a handkerchief over her nose and mouth so that she could n't smell the feathers . |
| 4 | It may be that unless there had been this early sectarian stance by Freud , the body of theory and practice would have become hopelessly confused , so that , from a practical standpoint , Freud 's judgement and action was correct . |
| 5 | He never had the substance for a leader and Labour would have done much better with Denis Healey . |
| 6 | I spoke to Jean Collis , coordinator of Bassetlaw MIND ( the local branch of the national association for mental health ) , who was worried that people with chronic depression and anxiety would have to rely increasingly on voluntary organisations for help . |
| 7 | Scriabin 's First Symphony is a cyclic , tautly structured work than can well manage without being manoeuvred towards the sound world of the Poem of Ecstasy , and Segerstam would have done better to have had more of an ear for pacing and projection than is evident here . |
| 8 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 9 | Now of course , in a , in a complete psychoanalysis , if Woodrow Wilson had been going for analysis , then all kinds of other aspects of his life and personality would have opened up . |
| 10 | In a week or so weather and growth would have sealed up again all the raw edges that betrayed its use . |
| 11 | However , the position is not as simple as this because , if the merger had taken place , rationalisation and restructuring would have happened anyway and it is likely that certain plants in any combined GM/Leyland group would have closed . |
| 12 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 13 | Less than 100 years later , zealots of the Reformation would have wrecked the abbey and plundered the Royal tombs and fire would have destroyed more than 200 of the 247 houses in the town . |
| 14 | Of course , if granny had heard the shot it would have been all up , but mother would have covered up for him — to the last . ’ |