Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sea-urchin , positional signals would not have to travel across more than 20 cells . |
| 2 | The table settings would not have disgraced a banquet : fine Baccarat crystal , gold-crested porcelain and solid silver cutlery set on damask cloths . |
| 3 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 4 | Pentecost did not only mean the offering of the firstfruits to God ( and what remarkable firstfruits of the Spirit were offered to the Lord that day as three thousand people believed , were baptised , and joined the company of the disciples praising God in the temple ) : first-century Jews would also have recalled the giving of the law on Mount Sinai ( see Jubilees 1:1 , 6:17 ) . |
| 5 | The report accepted that , without this , the frauds would not have come to light and that there were probably other , undetected , offences . |
| 6 | On passing under the building a cacophony of kettle drums and trumpets would once have announced the arrival of any important visitor . |
| 7 | But erm you know when we were on the strike if these lads would n't have gone back , there was couple of scabs went back into the quarry . |
| 8 | He said that if they had not gained the upper hand then the old Völkisch parties would certainly have picked a fight with Poland . |
| 9 | But anyway , the foreigners would n't have left much . |
| 10 | Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference . |
| 11 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 12 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 13 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |
| 14 | Although this would hardly seem fast enough to catch prey , the smaller reptilian and amphibious animals would also have run at similarly slower speeds . |
| 15 | In an area with such rapid changes in temperature as to erode hard rock into sand , soft shells would not have survived . |
| 16 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |
| 17 | The Reichmann brothers would already have taken their day off on Saturday and today would be back at business as usual . |
| 18 | However , she realised that these matters would just have to take their course , although she must also remember she did n't have unlimited time at her disposal , because her father would be expecting her back at the office . |
| 19 | Fife also revealed that tax-payers would not have to pay for uncollected poll tax arrears , believed to stand at up to £35 million . |
| 20 | Sergeant Barry Middleton added : ‘ Tosh 's feet would n't have touched the ground . ’ |
| 21 | One of the only four known examples of the form by Newport 's major maker , even restoration to its feet would not have prevented a far higher price in the boom of the late 1980s . |
| 22 | Sprawling at his feet would not have done much for her dignity . |
| 23 | He went to the council school , not Byron House , and he knew about football and boxing , sports that my parents would n't have dreamed of following . |
| 24 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 25 | In free as well as in pauper apprenticeship corporal punishment was allowed within reason , and the treatment of the " chimney boys " was as notorious as that of the factory children , for in both cases youngsters were being consigned to labour in conditions in which few parents would willingly have placed them . |
| 26 | Prof Spitz , Nuffield professor of paediatric surgery , added : ‘ We would never have started the operation if we thought one was n't going to survive , and the parents would never have wanted it . ’ |
| 27 | It is also certainly the case that the global capitalist system has brought to hundreds of millions of people a standard of living that their parents would never have believed possible . |
| 28 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
| 29 | However , it has to be recognized that the whole concept of conservation areas would never have become established in many places without a willingness by local authorities to accept development behind facades . |
| 30 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |