Example sentences of "[conj] it would have do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs . |
| 2 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 3 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 4 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |
| 5 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 6 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 7 | Not that it would have done the slightest bit of good . |
| 8 | The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans . |
| 9 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 10 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |
| 11 | In the flurry and excitement you clue will bulk much less large in the reader 's mind than it would have done . |
| 12 | Some alienation provisions contain surrender-back clauses which should be strongly resisted by the tenant , as they lead to uncertainty as to whether the tenant will be permitted to assign the lease to the person of its choosing , and unless carefully worded could result in the tenant obtaining less from the landlord on surrender than it would have done from the assignee . |
| 13 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 14 | It was n't as convincing as she 'd like , but it would have to do . |
| 15 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 16 | As with most fossils of this comparatively recent date , the shell looks now much as it would have done when the animal first died , except for the loss of pigment . |
| 17 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 18 | The use of her first name did not imply familiarity , as it would have done in England– though she had never really got used to being on first-name basis with everyone ; she was invariably disconcerted by this custom . |
| 19 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 20 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 21 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 22 | It later transpired that the Hargrave vehicle customs-cleared its load of Spanish refrigerated produce in Dover as it would have done on any night of the year , up till now . |
| 23 | The , the note is in fact er effectively the Bank of , could have endorsed it to , to a third party so to speak exactly as it would have done in any er any fiscal currency of the er of the type . |