Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was an old lady and would have found it hard to forget |
| 2 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 3 | Only then did the American boy notice his extraordinarily long curling fingernails , the mark of a high-ranking courtier that would have made a Western-style handshake awkward and discomfiting for both parties . |
| 4 | He said in a grave tone that would have done credit to the S.M.O. , ‘ So she is still having to stay in her bedroom ? |
| 5 | St Paul would have walked the streets of Exeter ; he would have come into our schools and offices and shops ; he would have visited the cinemas and sports clubs and night spots ; he would have looked at the news programmes and the daily press and would have used what he saw and heard as fuel for prayer . |
| 6 | He went on to argue that the bill violated fiscal discipline and would have destroyed jobs and undermined small businesses . |
| 7 | The British government has backed down under pressure from the House of Lords over a controversial proposal that would have given the Secretary of State for Education formal responsibility for the way in which universities are run ( see Nature 362 , 275 ; 1993 ) . |
| 8 | Presently there were feet on the stairs — a headlong clatter that would have frightened her had she been capable of ordinary feelings . |
| 9 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |
| 10 | Unlike ITV , Channel Four would not seek to serve the vast audience but would have to satisfy parts of the audience at various times during the week . |
| 11 | The letter was the standard letter that would have gone out if the claim had been entertained . |
| 12 | Here was a socialist plot that would have launched General Ripper into a pre-emptive strike against Brussels . |
| 13 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 14 | ‘ When he discovered you 'd disappeared , he went storming off half cocked and in a filthy rage that would have rocked the very mountains . |
| 15 | Seaview , a sprawling white villa that would have looked equally at home on some Greek island , was set high on a bluff overlooking the sea , poised like some magical fairy-tale castle , its silhouette sharp against the darkening autumn sky , at its feet the rocky shore that tumbled to the sea . |
| 16 | A NEW YORK federal appeals court has overturned a key decision that would have allowed an former Belfast IRA man to remain in the United States . |
| 17 | The cylinder was filled with a compressed chemical that would have smothered both Sweetman and me in an avalanche of nauseating foam . |
| 18 | Her humour is a weapon that has pole-vaulted her out of the solid folk-roots category , an alternative scene that would have kept her firmly away from the mainstream . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She knew that Nîmes was a provincial city and would have preferred it not to be , seeing " provincial " in terms of the English nineteenth century novel , not of the Roman Provincia , Provence . |
| 21 | But on Wednesday the Senate voted overwhelmingly against a procedural motion that would have allowed the cut to be introduced later in the year . |
| 22 | The Sergeant was a very good piper and would have gone on all night . |
| 23 | Jack Robinson thought this was a good idea but would have to check with his immediate boss . |
| 24 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 25 | In 1891 , after she learned that she was suffering from progressive myopia and would have to give up painting , embroidery , and other close work , she turned whole-heartedly to garden designing . |
| 26 | During the long periods between revaluations , distortions in the relative valuations of different properties occurred and , of course , new property had to be valued at the notional figure that would have obtained at the date of the previous revaluation . |
| 27 | HOUSTON — It was a sleuthing job that would have made Agatha Christie proud . |
| 28 | When she had first known him , the glossy curls had been ruthlessly cut into a very short , severe style that would have suited very few men , but looked exactly right with his strong features . |
| 29 | To what extent have UDCs promoted the relocation of economic and physical activity that would have occurred in any case ? |
| 30 | I signed a two-year contract and would have honoured that , even if we had missed the play-offs . |