Example sentences of "[noun sg] it would have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any other man it would have seemed like meaningless and artificial flattery , but Willi was incapable of being artificial . |
| 2 | If the retailer had committed an offence it would have consisted of giving an indication that the bars labelled ‘ Extra value ’ gave better value than other bars of Cadbury 's chocolate in his shop . |
| 3 | The alternative approach of defining one or more new registers was rejected because of the complexity it would have added to an already complex set of algorithms . |
| 4 | One Opposition MP , whose constituency includes Cowley , is calling on Aerospace to invest in car-making the money it would have spent on paying back the Government . |
| 5 | The higher age did not immediately become compulsory , due to the strain it would have placed upon the economy of working-class families . |
| 6 | No doubt if A.O. Hume had never founded the Congress it would have come into existence in some other fashion . |
| 7 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 8 | In one case promotion in the off-farm employment had been refused by the employed himself because of the added restriction it would have placed on his farming activities . |