Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] would have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 2 | any liability accepted by agreement or contract unless that liability would have existed otherwise . |
| 3 | With a range of 10,000 miles , the aircraft could have managed its mission although each sortie would have taken nearly thirty hours ! |
| 4 | Those who first heard this story would have understood well enough that if the rebel leaders were to be punished , then the other members of their families might have to suffer with them . |
| 5 | While the example of Kepler illustrates the influence of artistic practice on a ‘ scientist ’ ( which is not Kemp 's primary concern ) , discussion of this instance would have enhanced considerably the author 's argument that both the theory and practice of perspective were significant resources for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | Like all prophecy , the signs were in the eye of the beholder , and perhaps another witness would have seen quite different forms In the blur . |
| 7 | Of course — as Titmuss pointed out — had the Luftwaffe launched an all-out offensive on 3 September 1939 , as everyone expected , this scenario would have come about . |
| 8 | Moxon 's much-awaited return after breaking a finger meant one of the batsmen who played in the match at Basingstoke this week would have to drop out . |
| 9 | A yard of this size would have employed about twenty staff . |
| 10 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 11 | But in fact they did care , because if they had n't the traumas that afflicted Welsh rugby at about this time would have had not effect . |
| 12 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
| 13 | The radical change from the romantic picturesqueness of the Elizabethan manor house to the measured symmetry of South Luffenham Hall must have upset many of the more traditional locals , for this house would have looked daringly modern when it was built . |
| 14 | assumed under any agreement unless such liability would have attached not withstanding such agreement ; |
| 15 | Of course , any such clause would have to make clear the customer 's right to strike it out . |
| 16 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 17 | I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time . |
| 18 | In addition to the hazard of wearing the equipment for the first time , each man would have to walk more than 800 yards through the disused roadways while wearing it . |
| 19 | Finally they let her go — the mother convinced that a boggle had possessed her daughter and only too glad to see the last of her , the father , heartbroken , soon to submit to an illness which his former self would have beaten off quite easily . |
| 20 | Although that information would 've come out with her salary would n't it ? |
| 21 | Now a hacker in that situation would have to think twice . ’ |
| 22 | Not that Lubor would have answered anyhow . |
| 23 | ‘ Any Christian would have cleaned out God 's holy house ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What woman of any initiative would have spent almost her entire adult life living in discord with a difficult mother ? ’ |
| 25 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 26 | Owen half-realized this and if he had had any sense would have shut up , but Mahmoud 's moods blew up very suddenly out of an apparently clear sky and once again he was slow in reacting . |