Example sentences of "the [noun sg] would have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he could stand on his dignity , but Corbett would inform the King and the Prince would have to answer eventually . |
| 2 | It was 1859 before Alexander gave reformers their head by granting them control of the Editing Commissions , and by then the prestige of the throne would have suffered far more from the abandonment of emancipation than from allowing a version of it to go through . |
| 3 | There is no doubt but that , if Mrs. Steed 's signature had been forged or if the non est factum plea had been made good , the case would have fallen squarely within paragraph ( g ) . |
| 4 | In response to such claims , the police said that had Blandford pleaded not guilty , more details about the case would have come out . |
| 5 | If upon the hearing of such setting aside application C.N.L. were to succeed , and P.C.A. were then to co-operate by handing over the documents before , rather than at , trial , C.N.L. could start using the material to prepare their evidence for trial — albeit by then , of course , the trail would have cooled still further . |
| 6 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 7 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 8 | Armstrong said : ‘ We thought that , after two successive wins , the talk would have died down . |
| 9 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 10 | Every room in the place had been barricaded separately ; the enemy would have to take not one stronghold , but a dozen . |
| 11 | The boom would have run out of steam very quickly indeed if capitalists had been forced to find extra employees to operate all the new machines . |
| 12 | Dante was right to respect him , for Dante had no Greek , and the Aeneid would have stood out nobly against such literature as was available in the year 1300 . |
| 13 | If only the wind would have picked up , the fog would have been dispersed quickly . |
| 14 | If our house had had a glass front like the neighbours the car would have gone straight through . |
| 15 | Some brokers suggested the floor had shifted to DM2.95 but others thought the pound would have to fall still further , possibly to DM2.90 , before the Chancellor would react . |
| 16 | We 'd go barefoot in the fields and play fairies , and horses and keepers : the horse would have to step in as many cow shits as possible and the keeper would have to clean it up from between their toes . |
| 17 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 18 | During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded . |
| 19 | The first thing is to remember is that no daggerboard is completely efficient and so if you try aiming for a goal point , you 'll actually end up slightly downwind because the boat would have drifted sideways . |
| 20 | Without investment in new technology is thought that the work would have gone abroad . |
| 21 | The sun would have shone brighter if yourself had been there . |
| 22 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |
| 23 | He gave as the ground for his refusal Matadial 's acceptance that her statement to the police was incorrect , but Mr. Pantry did not oppose the application and their Lordships consider that the judge would have done better to read the statement before giving his ruling . |
| 24 | At this time the universe would have contained mostly photons , electrons , and neutrinos ( extremely light particles that are affected only by the weak force and gravity ) and their antiparticles , together with some protons and neutrons . |
| 25 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 26 | From what he could remember of Luke , the boy would have fitted well into the Waffen SS . |
| 27 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 28 | " Any country wishing to join the Community would have to go along with that " , he said . |
| 29 | A less religious or a more sane man than the fanatic would have shut up . |
| 30 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |