Example sentences of "[noun] would [not/n't] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Lord Mountbatten lived , there is a good chance that Diana Spencer would not have become Princess of Wales . |
| 2 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 3 | Otherwise your trainer would n't have entered them . |
| 4 | Bonanza would n't have gone to all that trouble to set up a deal like you 're imagining . ’ , |
| 5 | I am not quite sure from the map where Presteigne station was , but it looks as if the PCBCR would not have run into it directly , merely to a junction outside the town . |
| 6 | Thank goodness my vote would not have made any difference . |
| 7 | In Britain , such a vote would not have given the fascists power . |
| 8 | That is , if the pupil had not braked , then if the instructor had n't , the car would n't have stopped . |
| 9 | Damn , wish that car would n't have started |
| 10 | The Fontainebleau abatement would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 11 | The table settings would not have disgraced a banquet : fine Baccarat crystal , gold-crested porcelain and solid silver cutlery set on damask cloths . |
| 12 | A stranger would n't have known about this place . |
| 13 | A repetition is justified under the principle of relevance because the hearer would not have recovered the extra contextual effects without it . |
| 14 | With the latter recruitment , Detroit became a city of largely black population ; the automobile industry would not have survived had it had to rely on the sons and daughters of its original workers . |
| 15 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 16 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 17 | And Amabel could not stop herself from thinking that this dreadful , dirty town must surely be to blame , that if Gemma had been less stubborn about remaining here , in this dark old manor , standing cheek-by-jowl with the brewery and the foundry and those hundreds and hundreds of unwashed , unlettered people who worked in them , then this tragedy would not have occurred . |
| 18 | The report accepted that , without this , the frauds would not have come to light and that there were probably other , undetected , offences . |
| 19 | But erm you know when we were on the strike if these lads would n't have gone back , there was couple of scabs went back into the quarry . |
| 20 | But anyway , the foreigners would n't have left much . |
| 21 | There was an improvement after the break , but a neutral would not have guessed the home team are within striking distance of the Premier League . |
| 22 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 23 | Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference . |
| 24 | Lucy would n't have staked anything on it , but he did n't appear to know that Christine was dead . |
| 25 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 26 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 27 | So as the light would n't have reflected through the entrance . |
| 28 | After all , Beatrix would n't have sent her anything unless she had good reason to think it would be kept from Maurice . |
| 29 | One attempt at fostering would not have sufficed and now , no doubt , more attempts would be made . |
| 30 | Old Henryk would n't have fallen apart in front of Farnham 's Witchfinders , Annie . |