Example sentences of "a [noun sg] would [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a decision would have had considerable economic and political consequences as the plant employed 6,000 workers in a state where unemployment was already high , at 6.3 per cent . |
| 2 | In 1094 however such a future would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 3 | A butterfly would have exerted more pressure alighting on a flower petal . |
| 4 | A boycott would have hit Austrian road and dam projects in Asia . |
| 5 | He also felt that the level of PCBs required to kill a dolphin would have affected other species also . |
| 6 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 7 | The family of which Coleridge became a member would have seemed exceptional even had he never been born . |
| 8 | Twenty-five years ago , such a prognosis would have astounded many . |
| 9 | The ancient boiler had sat in sullen silence for ten days , a drifting cave under a mountain would have offered more comfort . |