Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 2 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 3 | They watched the progress of Polaris closely , but made no bid for it because to have done so would have loaded the Naval votes with its costs at the expense of the rest of the Fleet . |
| 4 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 5 | The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline . |
| 6 | He wanted to rub it , but the balanos for the bruise that would grow there would have to wait until later . |
| 7 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 8 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 9 | This could , of course , have been repealed , but to do so would have breached the general principle of free education , and the resulting expansion of charges would have risked a public outcry . |
| 10 | To do so would have threatened the stability of Franco 's position and was , therefore , out of the question . |
| 11 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 12 | Government simply had to act ; not to do so would have amounted to avoiding a problem that was ‘ evident ’ and ‘ plain' to all , particularly those who watched the news on television ! |
| 13 | Failure to do so would have put at risk all future Kindertransporte and , though in the last weeks of the peace the temptation to stay on in Britain must have been great , the escorts always did their best to get back . |
| 14 | To do so would have entailed considerable embarrassment . |
| 15 | Vendors who have been holding off would have to sell because of their financial commitments . |
| 16 | It seems likely that in every case , perhaps after much agonizing , they succumbed to the decision to ban News International publications : to do otherwise would have risked contractual misconduct , strong moral and political pressure from both colleagues and employers , and ultimately , probably , dismissal . |
| 17 | It is quite likely that to have attempted more would have done more harm than good : at all events , nothing more was attempted . |
| 18 | Any boat coming up would have come fairly close would n't it ? |
| 19 | The the boats coming up would have passed if if you were down the river . |
| 20 | What Marie was doing now would have irritated her mother . |
| 21 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 22 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 23 | Er if it had gone over would have thrown the whole lot out of er out of gear . |
| 24 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 25 | In December , Mr May operated , but was only able to remove 70pc of the tumour , as to remove anymore would have stopped her breathing completely . |
| 26 | Not only did prostitutes frequent the theatre , but the street transvestite was sometimes associated with prostitution and possibly sodomy : Henriques notes a regulation dating from 1480 forbidding prostitutes to dress as men in public , and remarks : ‘ This masquerading presumably would have meant an added inducement to sodomy ’ ( Prostitution and Society , ii . |
| 27 | The incident had actually happened two years ago but to say so would have diluted the force of the tale . |
| 28 | The money to return home would have to come . |
| 29 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 30 | This document has not been translated into Dutch , but I imagine that , had it been , extracts such as the one quoted above would have presented the Dutch translator with a problem ( bearing in mind that the above is only a short extract and that a similar pattern of thematic development runs throughout the Foreword ) . |