Example sentences of "it would have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 2 | It would have remained so to this day — but for the unforseen results of subsidence . |
| 3 | If Mercury was hot in these early times , and it formed homogeneously , then it would have differentiated early in its history . |
| 4 | However , it would have harmonised nicely with the bodily secretions ( excretions ? ) of the infrequently washed bodies of the era . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't hit the wickets for a while and I was n't going to throw it because it was a rather tense moment and it would have given away at least one run if I had missed ’ Rhodes recalled . |
| 6 | The ‘ combat ’ called for here would certainly have been ‘ risky ’ for it would have led inevitably to the destruction of both the Republican party and the Reagan administration . |
| 7 | Underlying Plekhanov 's argument is the central idea that , in order to explain a social phenomenon , one must understand not just why it did ( or does ) in fact occur , but why it would have happened even in the absence of the particular beliefs and actions that caused it . |
| 8 | This special extra energy can be shown to have an antigravitational effect : it would have acted just like the cosmological constant that Einstein introduced into general relativity when he was trying to construct a static model of the universe . |
| 9 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |