Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
| 2 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 3 | Bowbazaar links Calcutta 's business district with the hugely-crowded Sealdah suburban railway terminus and an explosion of this intensity during daytime would have killed hundreds of people , he said . |
| 4 | It is far from clear that the necessary Listed Building Consent for demolition would have been forthcoming from the local authority . |
| 5 | From the early days , the children destined for university would have acquired at least the rudiments of Greek and perhaps even a little Hebrew : books in all three languages had been left to the School by William Nicholson , the Master , in 1597 . |
| 6 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 7 | The time for doubts would have come afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 9 | One can imagine how ordinary people coming to her for help would have gone away cheered and instructed by this sane visionary . |
| 10 | The scheme for parents would have to start with a really adequate level of child benefits . |
| 11 | Applying the but for test would have produced this result . |
| 12 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right of appeal to a tribunal . |
| 13 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right to go to an appeal tribunal , and his hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. Kellett-Bowman ) rightly picked him up on the point . |
| 14 | Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices . |
| 15 | Certainly the tabular method of presenting results does not show them in the best light and the use of graphs would have made them much more accessible . |
| 16 | The charismatic movement did in places cause division and provoke suspicion , especially in its early days , but it is my settled conviction , and my experience , that this need not be so , and that the Spirit of unity would have it otherwise . |
| 17 | None of this showed on her face , but a certain rigidity of jaw would have betrayed to the careful watcher that perhaps she was n't quite as calm and in control as she wished to appear . |
| 18 | They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more . |
| 19 | The Duke and Duchess of Windsor would have been marvellous and I suspect they might have done it , too . |
| 20 | For my part I simply can not predict what effect , for good or ill , this kind of centralization would have on the education service . |
| 21 | Artificial insemination by donor ( AID ) , i.e. by a man other than the husband , can be used to achieve fertility where the husband lacks spermatozoa , or is otherwise infertile , or if the husband is a carrier of a genetic disease with a high chance of its being transmitted to a child ; alternatively the husband and wife may both be carriers of the same recessive gene , so that each act of fertilization would have a 25 per cent chance of giving rise to a diseased child . |
| 22 | To carry out even that form of monitoring would have required the full-time work of two clerks . |
| 23 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 24 | Like Braid , the name of Vardon would have stirred local followers of the game . |
| 25 | This , of course would have to be seen . |
| 26 | Those of course would have to qualify according to the rules of technical assistance and British aid , but in principle the study seminars are certainly open and we normally have people from countries other than the Third World ones . |
| 27 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 28 | Moreover , the unemployment rates with which post-war creeping inflations were associated were well below the rates which even the most sanguine of Keynesians would have regarded as feasible minima . |
| 29 | The ‘ Tenbrae ’ service at the time of Victoria would have begun in the evening gloom , lit by the symbolic number of candles ( representative of the Apostles , the three Marys , and Christ himself ) . |
| 30 | It seems clear that Britain at least did not envisage any institutional structures beyond this , yet some form of framework would have been necessary if all the objectives of the treaty were to be properly fulfilled . |