Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short-term contract would have been ideal experience . ’ |
| 2 | To reach it other than by boat or wading in low tide would have taken an hour 's drive , so it was not often visited by the women . |
| 3 | John was going to make his comforting fiction — that she had not really saved the firm , merely secured it a little earlier than the normal contracts would have saved it anyway — he was going to make it true , by ( in effect ) doctoring the books . |
| 4 | It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible . |
| 5 | If the Labour Party were to build up an effective electoral machine , its leaders argued such controversial activities would have to be abandoned in the interests of widening popular support . |
| 6 | Though , within the limits of building activity set by the Labour government , it is unlikely that the development charge procedure seriously affected the supply of land , it is probable that the Conservative government 's plans for private building would have been jeopardised by it . |
| 7 | The intelligence and sensitivity by which some people draw rich implications from quite narrow experience would have nothing to work on if they had not plunged deep into that experience . |
| 8 | The National Economic Assessment would have been boycotted , loans from the Industrial Investment Bank accepted under duress , and the Technology Trusts lampooned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under this draft , the European Parliament would have increased powers to approve the legislative measures necessary to establish the final stage of EMU , but the Commission would retain exclusive rights to initiate this legislation . |
| 11 | The platter of assorted vegetables would have delighted a vegan . |
| 12 | If these missiles had triggered ESM equipment on all the British ships , unnecessary confusion would have resulted defence chiefs believed . |
| 13 | To translate this new legal status into political action would have required an organised support basis and this did not exist . |
| 14 | Adams , for instance , says , of the historical analysis of discourses of ‘ mothering ’ she suggests , that ‘ it is unclear what purchase political action would have ’ on it ( 1983 : 51 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Because no man in his right mind would have you . |
| 16 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |
| 17 | no-one in their right mind would have bet on that being the winner . |
| 18 | All fourth and fifth year pupils in maintained schools would have nine weekly science lessons , three each in physics . |
| 19 | Even if it is likely that a Labour administration would have failed in the round to solve Britain 's fundamental problems , there is little doubt that at a minimum there would have been a substantial redistribution of income and some attempt to reform the City , regulate public utilities more strongly and determinedly tackle the homelessness problem . |
| 20 | In his long and ultimately successful battle against the latter organization ( a European army in which French , German , and other European units would have been integrated under American command ) de Gaulle developed all his objections to supranationalism . |
| 21 | Without an infusion of funds from the DHSS ( now DSS ) , fewer private homes would have been established and many more would have proved to be unprofitable . |
| 22 | Companies adopting the European statute would have to choose between three versions of worker participation . |
| 23 | In the case of William Black , the political considerations would have been no less difficult to ignore . |
| 24 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 25 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 26 | If the murderer was not from Godstowe , and any normal outsider would have been noticed , perhaps there 's a third possibility ? ’ |
| 27 | These and other strange animals would have given Olduvai a unique ambience , but the basic framework of the present-day savannah environment had already been established . |
| 28 | Possible peers would have included Mr Bragg , Sir ‘ Dickie ’ Attenborough , and television 's Sir Denis Forman . |
| 29 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 30 | With the impending General Election and current deep recession , coupled with a possible world slow-down in trade , opposing political parties would have us believe different interpretations of the current state of the economy . |