Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] taken " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The books would have taken up too much of my life . ’ |
| 2 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 3 | Angel 's parents would have taken poor lonely Tess to their hearts immediately , as they did every other lost soul , without thought of family or education or wealth . |
| 4 | Well to-do visitors would have taken it as their right to be given a tour of the house and gardens as they travelled the country in past centuries — today visitors from all over the world come to Blenheim — their entrance fees paying for its up-keep . |
| 5 | Good example in ninety two if Harlow council had been a whole er whole council election in nineteen ninety two it 's highly likely the Conservatives would have taken control . |
| 6 | But he knew it was more likely that alien golden eagles would have taken it over and it might not be easy to win it back for his own . |
| 7 | But before the advent of data-processing capacity , the actual analyses would have taken man-years of clerical toil to complete . |
| 8 | She could have chosen a quite unsuitable family for you , and the social workers would have taken you away . |
| 9 | At Newport the troops would have taken an hour 's rest and then made in several extended columns for the northern shore of the island , to occupy it in its entirety . |
| 10 | It is a wide-ranging analysis of the world picture which almost all the old writers would have taken for granted but which we , our minds fed with different mythologies and sciences , would very easily mistake . |
| 11 | When formerly two or more persons would have taken as legal tenants in common , they take now as joint tenants on trust for the tenants in common ; and no severance of this legal joint tenancy by alienation or otherwise is allowed . |
| 12 | Burglars would have taken the video . |
| 13 | The river also provided a tremendous variety of fish and certainly the Millers would have taken advantage of this from the Garden frontage . |
| 14 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 15 | The group company may then receive the benefit of any allowable loss in respect of the liability , which the warrantors would want taken into account in calculating their liability . |
| 16 | Ambassador Bonsal states , ‘ I do not believe that the Russians would have taken sugar from Cuba which the United States was prepared to purchase . |
| 17 | He was excluded on these grounds when the eliminators were announced even though , by the time the fights would have taken place , his ten years would have been up . |
| 18 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 19 | A little bit here and a little bit there , and the players would have taken to it . |
| 20 | The Freight Transport Association claimed that raising the weight limit to 44 tonnes for all vehicles would have taken more heavy lorries off the road , reduced carbon dioxide emissions and saved the road haulage industry millions of pounds . |
| 21 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 22 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 23 | Some women would have taken it in good humour . ’ |
| 24 | He went on to say that the Met failed in this respect , and it is certainly the case that in the late Sixties some policemen would have taken the evidence with them , later , with a conjuror 's flourish , producing sackfuls of cannabis from behind the furniture with cries of ‘ Hullo John ! |
| 25 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |