Example sentences of "[conj] one would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital costs have varied greatly , but in no case have reached the sort of level that one would have expected from shared space schemes , where costs are raised by the needs for complete resurfacing . |
| 2 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 3 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 4 | Yet this is the very example that one would have used to challenge their argument . |
| 5 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 6 | Caballé , and from the past Johanna Gadski , who rather unexpectedly comes to mind more than once ) , and in ‘ O patria mia ’ the high C , the As too , are louder than one would have wished . |
| 7 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 8 | German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism . |
| 9 | Susan , like Breeze , possessed the golden gift of putting people at their ease , and old Cornelius Fennell — for he was the world-famed art collector — proved to be far more amenable than one would have supposed . |
| 10 | They were a kindly couple , rather older than one would have expected , although there had always been a suggestion of old-fashionedness about Dorothy as a child . |
| 11 | The creature looked wilder and woollier than any I 've met in seas round about , its suckered and flock-piled textures giving more chew and less taste than one would have expected . |
| 12 | For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness . |
| 13 | What is taxable is the benefit to the employee and one would have expected the quantum of that benefit to be assessed by reference to the value of the benefit to the employee . |
| 14 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |
| 15 | But one would have thought that any gentleman who links corporal punishment with his lady 's age is unlikely to have his twilight years shared . |
| 16 | There was a trial for black lead in Tilberthwaite Gill , but one would have thought that his Lordship would have mentioned that place . |
| 17 | Nobody expected anyone to get their leg broken but one would have thought that the top two teams in the country could have contributed more in terms of effort , flair and excitement . |
| 18 | Obviously , this was what Emma wanted to read , but one would have expected her to take advantage of her rival Ælfgifu of Northampton 's absence from England to press Harthacnut 's case with his father , and it seems significant that both the Chronicle C and E texts consider Harold 's claim and identity questionable , that the Oxford meeting which followed Cnut 's death decided that he should hold the country for himself and his brother , and that Emma was allowed to reside in Winchester with Harthacnut 's housecarls to keep Wessex for him . |
| 19 | Which is a pity , because one would have liked particularly to hear more of the ebullient Gumede , a sort of Mad Max of the townships . |
| 20 | It is disappointing that the subject specialists in these libraries ( who are usually responsible for their preparation ) do not take this critical approach , because one would have thought they were well capable of it . |
| 21 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 22 | There is no trace of a lease for the adjacent Coniston Manor at this period though one would have expected the Champions to have taken this " sett " if it had been available . |
| 23 | The examination of the evidence from villas was not as thorough as one would have liked , as in most cases it comes from old accounts and is of extremely poor quality , with very little attempt , if any , at a stratigraphical analysis . |
| 24 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 25 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 26 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 27 | Maybe I 'm being unkind , but they were n't too friendly , did n't shout out ‘ Haway , come on … thou might as well join us , ’ as one would have wished . |
| 28 | Again through the help of kind neighbours I was able to visit him now and again , though not as often as one would have wished . |