Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle did do well , but was n't quite as dynamic as Strach — he 'd do some very pretty stuff every now and then , but occasionally hold back a bit where Strach would have gone headlong into attack . |
| 2 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 3 | purists may have an essential moral objection that this approach is false — what Ruskin or Morris would have called a lie . |
| 4 | Brooking , Devonshire or Dickens would have rendered useless Leeds 's tedious offside trap by the simple expedient of running through from deep with the ball . |
| 5 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 6 | The Great Chain of Being has here become a matter of moral variety rather than biological species variety , but it is quite plain where Locke would have wanted to place himself . |
| 7 | Using the simple principle that the bigger the crowd the better the revenue , either Hong Kong or Japan would have been better suited to host the event . |
| 8 | Perhaps Cantona & Wallace would have worked , but Cantona was n't tough enough to be the front man , as scum found out in Turkey ( ha , ha ) , I 'm sure if Hughes had played instead they would still be in the EC . |
| 9 | He doubted if the authorities represented by Merymose and Kenamun would pay him as much as Reni or Ipuky would have ; and he doubted if he would receive any reward at all if he were unsuccessful . |
| 10 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 11 | ‘ In terms of location , either Chester or Stockport would have been preferable . |
| 12 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 13 | Yet I 'm in no doubt at all that Ian would have provided the most engrossing portrait of all . |
| 14 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |
| 15 | I mean who would have thought that Tranmere would have lost four nil ? |
| 16 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 17 | Later it become known that Stewart would have preferred as fullback Bob Barrell , a hefty man from Stewart 's area , Wanganui , who was a famed goal-kicker . |
| 18 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 19 | It is possible that Offa would have liked Ecgfrith to have been consecrated either by the pope or by the papal legates . |
| 20 | He estimated that Isabel would have about one minute to negotiate the treacherously wet embankment , cross the ditch , and scramble up the other side . |
| 21 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 22 | On reaching Port Said , however , the captain declared that Annesley would have to be more respectably attired if he wished to continue in first class . |
| 23 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 24 | Although William would have been happy to keep bishops within the Kirk , the Scottish episcopal bench , led by Bishop Alexander Rose of Edinburgh , refused to accept the legitimacy of the new regime . |
| 25 | Cos , lots of towns and even good towns that yo you would of thought that are better off than Harlow would have been would have been do n't do half as much for the pensioners as Harlow does . |
| 26 | It seems certain that Louis-Napoleon would have preferred a prolongation of his power by legal means , but in the long run it was equally clear that he would not shrink from a confrontation with the opposition . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew that Jezebel would have a hand in it ! ’ |
| 28 | This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin . |
| 29 | But Cassie strongly suspected that Johnny would have got there in the end , without any help from Bella . |
| 30 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |