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

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1 They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions .
2 have there been , to its knowledge , rights exercisable by or on behalf of two or more limited undertakings which if exercisable by one of them would have made the company a subsidiary of it , nor
3 Either of them would have grabbed the hand .
4 ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’
5 ‘ Neither of them would have engaged you .
6 The Government points out that , for example , although this group would have lost entitlement to supplementary assistance , 1.2 million of them would have gained entitlement to standard housing benefit .
7 As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 .
8 Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark .
9 There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley .
10 More of them would have obtained jobs .
11 If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer , one of them would have to go .
12 ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’
13 In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database .
14 In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on .
15 As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself .
16 The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home .
17 ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’
18 ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister .
19 How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ?
20 Any one of them would have promoted him instantly into mainstream Hollywood and even some of his friends thought he was mad .
21 ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward .
22 ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight .
23 He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing .
24 If he had been asked where he got it , that obstinate jaw of his would have remained clenched , but Isambard knew how to ask his questions now .
25 Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life !
26 For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses .
27 Thirteen would have been unable to cope with the elimination regimen for social reasons or because of poor understanding , eight had tight small intestinal strictures , and eight were on high dose steroids ( both of which would have made the results difficult to interpret ) , four refused , two were treated for postoperative fistulas , two were pregnant , and one was treated for extensive pyoderma gangrenosum and had no gastrointestinal symptoms .
28 Engineers , whose prime objective had been to maximise net revenue , originally had put forward four proposals for the upgrading of the junction , all of which would have made the head-on collision of two trains on a single-track section of line outside the station impossible .
29 Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own .
30 During the course of March , however , anti-abortionists attempted to enact laws in Guam and Idaho , either of which would have forced the Supreme Court to decide upon the legality of the core of the Roe v. Wade judgment .
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