Example sentences of "[coord] would have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always impressed by his fame and would have liked a theatrical career . |
| 2 | The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers . |
| 3 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 4 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 5 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 6 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 7 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
| 8 | Slivers of black burnt onion , petrified bacon rinds , lacy brown scraps of fried eggs and scores of other morsels from tomatoes , sausages , steaks , chops , liver , potatoes , bread and baked beans here lay cheek by jowl , and would have afforded a rich reward to anyone interested in Mr Piggott 's diet over the past year . |
| 9 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 10 | Under the given conditions , changes of cholinesterase activity would have been demonstrable long before reaching a danger level , and would have provided an early warning . |
| 11 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |