Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If necessary , Havvie Blaine would have married a one-eyed dwarf to restore their fortunes , but luck was with him — he had Sally-Anne Tunstall in his sights , and the hope that she and her papa might not enquire too carefully into the Innescourt means , and if they did , why , transforming the daughter of a vulgar American robber-baron into Great Britain 's premier duchess was surely worth a dollar or two . |
| 2 | Private shareholders in Concorde would have required a high expected return to entice them into such a risky project . |
| 3 | King Hussein would have preferred a separate Palestinian delegation , he said , but " we have no objection to providing an umbrella for our Palestinian brethren " . |
| 4 | The traumas of Argentina would have dampened a lesser spirit than Bud 's . |
| 5 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 6 | Lord Lane would have taken a dim view , consent or no consent . |
| 7 | In the Liberal cabinet the majority was against allowing the PLA and Lord Devonport to be coerced by the Transport Workers Federation into a settlement ; Lloyd George and Haldane would have preferred a minimum wage for all dock workers and disliked Devonport 's intransigence , but were outvoted . |
| 8 | And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region . |
| 9 | Yesterday , magistrates in Solihull were told by a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals inspector that Boris would have suffered a lingering and painful death if his journey in the post had gone ahead . |
| 10 | Sam would have made a perfect lawyer . |
| 11 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 12 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 13 | Mary would have had a blue fit if she had known about Ethel Ramsden 's adventure : |
| 14 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 15 | The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School . |
| 16 | Gooch would have faced a maximum 10-year jail sentence if he had been charged with causing death by dangerous driving — a new offence introduced in April . |
| 17 | Mandeville just muttered a curse and Southgate would have launched a vitriolic attack upon the abbey if Sir Edmund had not told him to shut up and drink his wine . |
| 18 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 19 | But this was by no means all consumed by the brethren in an orgy of gluttony ; most of the larger monastic records in Sussex would have shown a similar pattern , since there was a constant coming and going of important visitors and benefactors with extensive retinues . |
| 20 | While I accept that the incident took place in the ‘ heat of the moment ’ , a swift apology from Mr. Stewart would have defused a tense situation instead of a letter expressing ‘ regret ’ belatedly sent to TVNZ . |
| 21 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 22 | On Oct. 1 , the head of the sixth IAEA inspection team , David Kay , said in Bahrain that Iraq would have developed a nuclear weapon within 18 months had the Gulf war not intervened , and that it still possessed the technology to manufacture a nuclear weapon within five years . |
| 23 | ‘ Durham would have made a beautiful model , but the city below the viaduct was a daunting prospect , ’ said Richard . |
| 24 | Although Laura would have liked a grand white wedding with all the trimmings , her mother had suddenly been taken ill , and clearly could n't manage all the organisation necessary for such an affair . |