Example sentences of "it would have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of Argyll and Milton clearly had proved insufficient to turn matters around in the excise establishment at Inverkeithing where it would have done most good . |
| 2 | Had the Inland Revenue won , it would have affected so many employees — tax practitioners claim hundreds of thousands — that the Revenue would have had to set up a special unit just to cope with the paperwork . |
| 3 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 4 | It is significant that , although it would have cost very little , no wholesale replacement or improvement of the track took place , an indication of the company 's attitude to its creation once it had been completed . |
| 5 | Often , in the course of these , which involved a lot of wandering about among the surrounding woods and fields , we had occasion to urinate together ( it would have taken too long to go home ) and the opportunity to examine one another 's bodies . |
| 6 | I mean they cut in through Manchuria down the north to , to , across to north China plain , had taken the cities on the eastern seaboard which was what they wanted , I mean th th they really was n't any point in controlling the rural south , it would have taken so many troops , so much administration if they 'd that then they had everything they wanted from the trading ports so there was n't that Japanese presence and so the clearly was different . |
| 7 | Had the imprisonment and the subsequent ‘ religious revival ’ come six years earlier , it would have produced less spectacular growth because the trained personnel were not then available to lead the movement and direct the sympathy for the Free Presbyterians into recruitment to the Church . |
| 8 | However , the tribunal rejected the employer 's reasoning , holding that if such reason were to be valid after the appeals it would have had even greater validity before . |
| 9 | The scheme had been widely approved : now as always Edward was careful not to proceed without consent , and had the scheme worked it would have proved highly lucrative . |
| 10 | It would have looked so odd . |
| 11 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |