Example sentences of "[conj] would have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw what she was — what she was to me — not what she seemed or would have appeared to be in a photograph or common portrait . |
| 2 | First , there are things which might or would have happened as consequences of some other action which he might have done instead . |
| 3 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 4 | It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case . |
| 5 | It is a homage to the kind of spirit that would have felt at home in Philip Glass . |
| 6 | On this issue , Hwang and Mai ( 1988 ) have shown that if the home firm 's conjectures were more ( less ) competitive than Cournot , the effect of the quota is to raise ( lower ) domestic prices relative to those that would have prevailed in the presence of tariffs . |
| 7 | Why do we give away Not only are we incurring the cost of what we 're giving away but we 're losing revenue with people that would have flown with us anyway |
| 8 | In a sense , this provision simply imposes the result that would have arisen under general conflict of law principles if the governing law clause had never existed . |
| 9 | During the long periods between revaluations , distortions in the relative valuations of different properties occurred and , of course , new property had to be valued at the notional figure that would have obtained at the date of the previous revaluation . |
| 10 | Lord Woodleigh gave him a look that would have quelled in an instant any insolent groom or keeper . |
| 11 | The budget cutbacks eliminated funds that would have gone to reinstallation , maintenance , and security . |
| 12 | An alert arithmetician will notice a discrepancy between this figure and the 1,476 votes that would have gone to Craig under the simpler system . |
| 13 | These can be useful for the company as the money that would have gone into the pension fund can be used to boost profitability ( particularly useful during a takeover bid ) , or for the financing of projects . |
| 14 | ‘ Developing countries are afraid funds for combating climate change will come out of funds that would have gone for development aid , ’ says Reddy . |
| 15 | But hardly anyone took this seriously , and much of Darwin 's own book was devoted to a discussion of the factors that would have led to mental progress . |
| 16 | The route to this intermediate target may be quite different from the route that would have led to the ultimate target . |
| 17 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 18 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 19 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 20 | They refused to examine particular complaints or cases , did not examine branch files and did not interview rank-and-file officers ; in other words , they did none of the things that would have had to be done to get at the truth . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and environmental goals , ’ Mr Patten said — a statement that would have jarred on his predecessor , and , until recently , on the party faithful . |
| 22 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 23 | He had read a file on Stepan and Ilya Holovich that would have come with a dust coat out of a Home Office basement reserved for the histories of Aliens ( Naturalized ) . |
| 24 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 25 | enough to have a oak coffin that would have come from somewhere else everybody got the same . |
| 26 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 27 | ‘ We could have signed to they on the type of deal that would have worked against their own long-term interest in relation to creative control . |
| 28 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 29 | To assess UK competition policy we need ideally to compare the evolution of the UK economy under the policy with the evolution that would have occurred under some different policy , for example a policy of laissez-faire or complete non-intervention . |
| 30 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |