Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I 'm in no doubt at all that Ian would have provided the most engrossing portrait of all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I mean who would have thought that Tranmere would have lost four nil ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 7 | It is possible that Offa would have liked Ecgfrith to have been consecrated either by the pope or by the papal legates . |
| 8 | He estimated that Isabel would have about one minute to negotiate the treacherously wet embankment , cross the ditch , and scramble up the other side . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew that Jezebel would have a hand in it ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But Cassie strongly suspected that Johnny would have got there in the end , without any help from Bella . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 18 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 19 | In looking at the way in which schools and colleges were managed after the 1988 Act , the Commission pointed out that LEAs would have a less directive role but would still have to monitor the services of schools and colleges . |
| 20 | It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory . |
| 21 | Oil industry officials said that Mexico would have to import some petrol products until a new 300,000 bpd plant was completed . |
| 22 | He told me he knew that Ken would have been an impossible person to live with . |
| 23 | We were thus officially a dry boat , though I had hidden some Irish whiskey in the engine room , and I was sure that Ellen would have similarly salted away some vodka . |
| 24 | Though I had the distinct impression that Edward would have preferred me to leave too , he said nothing , merely drummed his fingers on the desk top , then snapped , ‘ Well ? ’ into the receiver . |
| 25 | He and Chris Grant , on The Thinker , jumped the last together , but it was always on the cards that McCourt would have the upper hand . |
| 26 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 27 | It seems unlikely that Minkowski would have come across Smith 's earlier work directly , but he may have seen the reference to them in a paper of Ferdinand Frobenius , which appeared in the main German mathematical journal shortly before the competition was announced . |
| 28 | He was confident that Barnes would have trained without discomfort before being dispatched to join the squad at their Buckinghamshire headquarters . |
| 29 | Mildred dived for Ethel 's bench , knowing that Ethel would have made the best potion of all , and there it was , dark green and bubbling in the cauldron , with a half-full test-tube conveniently spilling a puddle of the liquid onto the bench . |
| 30 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |