Example sentences of "[det] would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had clearly by various decree created a force majeure over mineral workings and whilst at the time this would have appeared an admirable standing , nevertheless the monopoly began to serve , in later years , as a disincentive to exploration and development . |
| 2 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
| 3 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 4 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 5 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 6 | At the actual erm meeting which put this into practice the Conservatives suggested a phased in method , some now and some later , and this would have relieved a certain amount of hardship . |
| 7 | The Research Councils , and other funding bodies , who have rated the research proposals of potential Ph D candidates highly in competition with many others , have not as yet insisted upon the communication of research results by publication , although this would have provided an objective assessment of the worth of the research . |
| 8 | If wages per head had not increased , the share of GDP accounted for by consumption out of wage earnings would have fallen from 52 per cent in 1952 to 31 per cent in 1970 ; this would have required an inconceivable rise in other types of spending ( by capitalists and government ) if the increase in production was to be sold . |
| 9 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
| 10 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
| 11 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
| 12 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 13 | Martha Levy , too , was happy in what many would have found an unenviable situation . |
| 14 | Mmmn , that would have to include an away win . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I suppose that would have irritated a Socialist Republican Feminist like you . ’ |
| 16 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |