Example sentences of "[det] would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman .
2 This would have made a fascinating court case .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control .
6 Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Yes , I suppose that would have irritated a Socialist Republican Feminist like you . ’
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