Example sentences of "[noun] would have taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lord Lane would have taken a dim view , consent or no consent . |
| 4 | A real thief would have taken a screwdriver and levered off the clasps . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings . |
| 7 | These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay . |