Example sentences of "[noun] would have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 2 | If we had , if we 'd been a bit more rigorous with our criteria , our group would have got smaller . |
| 3 | Roslavl' officials would have lain quieter in their beds at night if they had bothered to read Maxim Gorky 's book On the Russian Peasantry published that same year . |
| 4 | These would have evolved in such a way that the displayer would have appeared bigger and more frightening . |
| 5 | To succeed , the book would have required greater impartiality , a more critical appraisal of the work described and more attention to the balance between topics . |
| 6 | ‘ The chips were so bad the carton would have tasted better . |
| 7 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 8 | it in there , but I , I think a double garage would have looked better than that , actually . |