Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely those disadvantaged by the consequences of the military-industrial complex would have risen up and used their democratic rights to question it ? |
| 2 | The Old Reaper would have caught up with him in weeks , probably , months at most . |
| 3 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 5 | After repeated attempts a more sensible person would have given up . |
| 6 | My social education would have advanced rapidly too , had I lived in with the school . |
| 7 | Man 's free will would have to go as well , and we would be left with an unloving , gatecrashing dictator God who refuses to allow people to choose their own eternal destiny . |
| 8 | But in France , Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , increased speculation that the British Government would have to make up its mind soon . |
| 9 | Commercial success would have lured forth more cash . |
| 10 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 11 | Yet identification with the aggressor , even if it may suggest a very early and rudimentary phase in superego development and therefore in internalization of the primal father , can not explain what had to happen next ; for , as we have seen , the crucial turning-point would have come only when aggression within the brother-band became inhibited . |
| 12 | Montgomery smiled in a kindly and tolerant fashion which any average person would have found more than wildly infuriating . |
| 13 | In particular they believed that a State which could dominate the sea and Europe 's trade with the outside world would have gone far towards making herself mistress of the continent . |
| 14 | As individual craftsmen neither had the desire nor the capital to pay for development work on machinery suitable for small-scale home-based use , factory-based manufacture would have become relatively more efficient over time as the technology was developed . |
| 15 | Countries opting for soft membership would have to put up with the first , and find substitutes for the second — for instance , by setting ( and hitting ) targets for money-GDP , using both fiscal and monetary policies . |
| 16 | The recent shift towards indirect taxation would have lowered even further the position of this country in the comparative scene . |
| 17 | If everyone had been like she was the human race would have died out long ago . |
| 18 | Even given substantial popular support , a socialist government/movement would have to give very careful thought to the development of a competent planning cadre able to hold its own against Treasury influence . |
| 19 | It might also have included woodland in which , again , the peasants could not graze their animals , but which the manorial lord would have used exclusively for his own purposes , including hunting . |
| 20 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 21 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 22 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , announced on Friday that the beleaguered company would have to write off £185m . |
| 23 | I suggest that , instead of choosing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor for his desert island disc , the Prime Minister would have done better to have chosen something from the Beggar 's Opera because there is a whole chorus on the London streets which could join in . |
| 24 | However , I do n't think it blends that well with the body shape : maybe a reverse idea would have suited better — or even , dare I say it , a rounded-off affair . |
| 25 | To heat the building to a reasonable temperature would have cost so much that they would have needed to charge a substantial entrance fee ! |
| 26 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 27 | Normally his provocative question would have sparked off a fiery response , but now , feeling gloomy and depressed , Luce said nothing . |
| 28 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
| 29 | The teachers in informal classroom would have had far less experience of the methods they were employing . |
| 30 | His dark grey suit would have sat well on a clerk in a City bank . |