Example sentences of "[verb] would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 If Beth had not come back early then what she had done would not have mattered .
2 ‘ A pre-agreed percentage is deducted for those pensioners it is felt would not have travelled if the fare had not been free . ’
3 ‘ We are talking about a man who played 90 times for England and if he had n't been injured would certainly have played over 100 .
4 Most of the issues that Dewey raises would never have occurred had the journal editor simply followed common courtesy .
5 Must know his job else Riddle would n't have kept him , nephew or no nephew .
6 New roads that would need to be provided would therefore have to come from that direction and and it itself will cut a swathe through the open countryside .
7 The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given .
8 Echoes of her multiple failure at the university shook her faith in her reasoning , but if she were as thick as they 'd made out there , surely Spiderglass would never have shrunk her ?
9 After the judgment , Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said : ‘ We did not want to cause additional stress to Mr Hale but the evidence we had would not have supported a settlement of the size of the eventual award . ’
10 Embalming would not have allowed for this and , had the person not been dead prior to the beginning of the operation , he certainly would be once it was all over .
11 Federico Zeri , probably Italy 's leading art historian and an intrepid debunker himself , rejects the ‘ 19th-century spurs , the helmet 's visor that if lowered would not have covered the warrior 's face . ’
12 Apart from what the customer may or may not find with the price of beer , is it not the case that what the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) has described would not have taken place if the beer orders had not been passed by the House ?
  Next page