Example sentences of "the [noun sg] would have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it landed , the blow would have crushed the cartilage and killed him instantly . |
| 2 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 3 | Greater care , also , in the proofreading would have prevented a number of misprints in the presentation material . |
| 4 | The question that ocurrs here is whether responsibility is deminished because there is a likelyhood that the provokation would have lead a reasonable man to loose his self-control and inflict this grievious harm . |
| 5 | The Association would have changed the day if the Minister had consulted them , but he had banned it without enabling them to change their plans . |
| 6 | It could be anticipated that the college would have seen the creation of a continuous stream of books and papers generated by the rich source of material which pours through its gates , but this has hardly been the case . |
| 7 | Under the Working Paper 's proposals , therefore , vaginal penetration by the penis would have remained the focus of sexual offences legislation . |
| 8 | The mechanics of the succession would have seen the convening of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile , the Palestine National Council . |
| 9 | The programme would have captured the imagination of TAMZIN DAVIS , 14 , if she 'd stumbled upon it while tuning her radio — but only for two minutes . |
| 10 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 11 | The Leader of the Opposition would have signed the treaty without the debate at Maastricht — he would have accepted anything that M. Delors put in front of him . |
| 12 | It is obvious how this affair had to end : the political logic of the contest would have made the gamble ‘ adventurist ’ even if the military logic had not . |
| 13 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 14 | Mr Howell said Phillips and Drew calculated in February that to sell the portfolio would have cost the council £69.1m . |
| 15 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 16 | With a normal take-off the glider would have cleared the obstruction . |
| 17 | The territory belonged to the King of Holland who was quite willing to part with it , and although the transfer would have meant the removal of a Prussian garrison which had been installed there since 1815 , Bismarck at first seemed indifferent to the transaction . |
| 18 | The proposal would have ended a system of low taxation on land sales which had helped fuel a property boom since the late 1980s . |
| 19 | Managing director Bernard Segrave-Daly said he had also been hoping the Chancellor would have introduced a duty system which would have helped smaller firms . |
| 20 | To have cancelled the conference would have created an equally bad impression . |
| 21 | The wing would have had a tendency to turn left in flight unless the change had been made ( incorrectly ) to counteract an inherent right turn . |
| 22 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 23 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 24 | Someone standing outside the room would have felt the powerful draught and know something was wrong . |
| 25 | No doubt the infant would have followed the adults down the well , too , had not the Padre offered to take the risk of burying it . |
| 26 | The wine would have delighted a connoisseur . |
| 27 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 28 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 29 | Visits to Dunfermline became holy days , later corrupted to holidays , and the town would have resembled a teeming holiday camp , says Mr Putter , with bed and breakfast the biggest industry . |
| 30 | The fourth argument was that the amendment would have left the Government with inadequate powers . |