Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] a different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 2 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 3 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 4 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |
| 5 | Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today . |
| 6 | Had this been the only ground of complaint , their Lordships might have reached a different conclusion on the appeal . |
| 7 | If Mr Bumble had known this earlier , he might have told a different story , but now it was too late . |
| 8 | If he had not been so taken aback , he might have suggested a different venue . |
| 9 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |
| 10 | I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this . |
| 11 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 12 | It could have gone a different way . ’ |
| 13 | The police could have adopted a different stratagem but it would have been ‘ more time-consuming and difficult ’ than this ‘ simple procedure ’ . |
| 14 | We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance . |
| 15 | We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection . |
| 16 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 17 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |
| 18 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 19 | Changes in these practices were stimulated , in many if not all cases , by the need to respond to population pressure ; once again , the same problem may have invoked a different response in different cultural milieux . |
| 20 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 21 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 22 | The name commonly adopted for the library automated catalogue , " online public access catalogue " or " OPAC may have acquired a different meaning from what was originally intended . |
| 23 | Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach . |
| 24 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 25 | Maybe then we would have prepared a different course of action . ’ |
| 26 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
| 27 | ‘ Many young women would have made a different choice , ’ he answered . |
| 28 | Had a piece of Lotharian history survived for these years , it would have told a different story . |
| 29 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 30 | And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps . |