Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] it [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 2 | They all spent time reassuring Fiona until the worst of the worry unwound from her body and I watched the movement of her silver-blond hair in the soft lights and made no attempt to throw doubts because it would have achieved nothing good . |
| 3 | The organisation would be unable to respond positively to as many requests for financial help for the arts as it would have liked . |
| 4 | so will there be a game and if so where and shall i pack my football shoes in my luggage — im leaving home ( over here in even colder ( -5 C ) norway ) ) in just a couple of hours so it would have been nice to know . |
| 5 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 6 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 7 | Sir Adrian cites the example of the army commander who leads his troops over the top of the trenches when it might have been more prudent to stay put . |
| 8 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 9 | In retrospect , Ken is a little unhappy that he did n't ask his belayer to place the pegs so it could have been an on-sight flash . |
| 10 | She added : ‘ At the time I did n't report it to the police because it would have been my word against a doctor 's . |
| 11 | This was unacceptable to the Turks because it would have involved them in legitimizing Russia 's longstanding and deliberate misinterpretation of the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji of 1774 . |
| 12 | All the others before it will have hierarchical actions , each setting up the subsidiary search which was solved by the following rule . |
| 13 | It had not obtained assessments for schemes when it should have . |