Example sentences of "[conj] it would have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |
| 2 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 3 | The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft . |
| 4 | The intensely provincial , Catholic and Nationalist environment within which the DHAC operated was not conducive to its kind of class-based , quasi-Marxist political rhetoric which would , ten years earlier , probably have unleashed a backlash that it would have found difficult to survive ; even the mild leftism of Stephen McGonagle had in the past made him an object of suspicion among Derry Catholics . |
| 5 | Intriguing but unimportant differences were that the Earth spun much faster in those early days — so the days and nights were much shorter ; and the moon was much closer , so it would have appeared vast in the sky ( if there had been any creature to observe it ) and the tides would have been far more dramatic . |
| 6 | And I did n't use ribbon cos it would have worked expensive for her I just used that erm |
| 7 | But it would have damaged local democracy . |
| 8 | I wanted to come home when we finished playing , but it would have seemed rude not to stay to tea when the granny had made it . |
| 9 | They would probably not bring very much bear meat at all , because Lugh was not especially partial to bear meat , but it would have looked odd to say this . |
| 10 | ‘ We did not want to call off the current tour because it would have created immense resentment back home among the players . |
| 11 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 12 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 13 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |