Example sentences of "it would [adv] have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only would this have amounted to abandonment of a well-established principle ( not a thing welcome to lawyers ) , but it would also have threatened the stability of contracts of sale . |
| 2 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 3 | It would n't have stopped the rope going round their necks ! ’ |
| 4 | It would n't have kept the prisoners in , but they could have gone anyway had they chosen to do so . |
| 5 | I suspect that wherever she 'd been — on a train to London or at home at Lomond View — it would n't have made the slightest bit of difference . |
| 6 | This was usually negotiating better discounts , in some of our production centres reducing the web width , which of course saves newsprint and in many areas er , in the regional newspapers reducing the distribution of our freeze in areas where we thought it er , it would n't affect , it would n't have affected the performance of the title . |
| 7 | And people have stopped us and have said , If this i if you 'd have been on on the flats , say six , ten years ago , erm it would n't have got the reputation it has now . |
| 8 | It would just have confused the issue . ’ |
| 9 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 10 | Surely it would not have cost the council a fortune to mount a modest event to mark this anniversary . |