Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 2 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 3 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 4 | They said the original $750 million proposal would have given BA wide entry into the US market but restricted US airlines in the UK . |
| 5 | The three biggest US carriers , American Airlines , United Airlines and Delta Airlines , had hoped that approval of the BA-USAir deal would have been linked to their gaining a bigger foothold in the UK market and argued that the original $750 million proposal would have given BA wide entry into the US market while restricting US airlines from further expansion into the UK . |
| 6 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 7 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 8 | The longer period of separation would have given time for the birds there to evolve as separate species and to have lost all connection with their original parent stock in India . |
| 9 | Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection . |
| 10 | The other view is that where the conduct of the plaintiff would have given rise to the defence at common law if he was suing for negligence , the defence is applicable . |
| 11 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 12 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 13 | Fair proportionality would have given it 19 or 20 seats : it actually won 14 . |
| 14 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 15 | After repeated attempts a more sensible person would have given up . |
| 16 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 17 | Totally unexpected because frankly no government , no civil service would have given us as much money for residential places as they did if they 'd known . |
| 18 | ‘ I had hoped that joining Derry would have given me some hunger back for the game but it just has n't happened , ’ said Doherty . |
| 19 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 20 | Even given substantial popular support , a socialist government/movement would have to give very careful thought to the development of a competent planning cadre able to hold its own against Treasury influence . |
| 21 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 22 | An independent share valuation would have given these shares a total value of about £50,000 . |
| 23 | A Spanish paper would have given the game away and an English one would have been out of date . |
| 24 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts had the system been used interactively , as described below . |
| 25 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively as described below . |
| 26 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively . |
| 27 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 28 | But as the Community moved towards the goal of political union the European Parliament would have to give greater co-legislating powers to the Council of Ministers . |
| 29 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |
| 30 | If unemployed , the scale would have given him 5s ( 25p ) a week . |