Example sentences of "[prep] them would have " in BNC.

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1 It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance .
2 Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known .
3 response at our end , and as as I said , I know that person , three particular incidences which were good incidences to report two of them would 've certainly resulted in arrests , and they got an absolutely negative reply .
4 That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about .
5 Either of them would have grabbed the hand .
6 ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice .
7 ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward .
8 ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister .
9 As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself .
10 He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy .
11 The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class .
12 Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable .
13 There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained .
14 Any one of them would have promoted him instantly into mainstream Hollywood and even some of his friends thought he was mad .
15 This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered .
16 ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’
17 The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other .
18 Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark .
19 ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’
20 There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley .
21 His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice .
22 ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight .
23 The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home .
24 He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing .
25 Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum .
26 Even if an idealised model of the two kinds of society could be constructed , it is apparent that the nature of communication in each of them would have to be less strongly differentiated than Goody is claiming .
27 But there can be nothing irrational about preferences which are reflectively consistent , so that the agent who pursued all of them would have no regrets .
28 As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 .
29 None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole .
30 So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it .
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