Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [conj] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If a merger between Coopers and Deloitte is successful , it will become the largest firm in the country and would have posted fee income of £413m based on 1988 figures . |
| 32 | The sort of person Moran was would have been an IRA person and belonged to the IRA at the foundation of the country and would have had a tricolour on his coffin . |
| 33 | Mark eliminates starter motor , battery , alternator , and ignition coil , and fixes in the end on an obscure switch which isolates the electrics from the gearbox and would have taken me a month to find — but , for the man who can , about three minutes . |
| 34 | There was nothing short of taking the chap by the scruff of his neck and showing him the street that would have done the trick . |
| 35 | It is doubtful if the corridors of Whitehall and the British civil service will quite match this record , but the simple point is that a host of records of potential interest to the historian that would have manifested themselves on paper will no longer do so . |
| 36 | He had an infection of the muscle and would have to stay in hospital for at least three weeks , maybe a month , while they treated him with penicillin injections . |