Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a range of 10,000 miles , the aircraft could have managed its mission although each sortie would have taken nearly thirty hours ! |
| 2 | We 'd go barefoot in the fields and play fairies , and horses and keepers : the horse would have to step in as many cow shits as possible and the keeper would have to clean it up from between their toes . |
| 3 | Lorraine Monk , of Kingston-upon-Thames , said Labour would have to do far more than merely reverse NHS cuts . |
| 4 | He never had the substance for a leader and Labour would have done much better with Denis Healey . |
| 5 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 6 | Some brokers suggested the floor had shifted to DM2.95 but others thought the pound would have to fall still further , possibly to DM2.90 , before the Chancellor would react . |
| 7 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 8 | If our house had had a glass front like the neighbours the car would have gone straight through . |
| 9 | Any attempt to draw up a wider programme would have to rely overwhelmingly on the only information available to the Opposition — the autumn statement in its present form . |
| 10 | Like all prophecy , the signs were in the eye of the beholder , and perhaps another witness would have seen quite different forms In the blur . |
| 11 | Nenna would have felt better pleased with herself if she had resembled her elder daughter . |
| 12 | Surely those disadvantaged by the consequences of the military-industrial complex would have risen up and used their democratic rights to question it ? |
| 13 | Every room in the place had been barricaded separately ; the enemy would have to take not one stronghold , but a dozen . |
| 14 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 15 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 16 | The boom would have run out of steam very quickly indeed if capitalists had been forced to find extra employees to operate all the new machines . |
| 17 | Dante was right to respect him , for Dante had no Greek , and the Aeneid would have stood out nobly against such literature as was available in the year 1300 . |
| 18 | Armstrong said : ‘ We thought that , after two successive wins , the talk would have died down . |
| 19 | It may be that unless there had been this early sectarian stance by Freud , the body of theory and practice would have become hopelessly confused , so that , from a practical standpoint , Freud 's judgement and action was correct . |
| 20 | During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded . |
| 21 | The first thing is to remember is that no daggerboard is completely efficient and so if you try aiming for a goal point , you 'll actually end up slightly downwind because the boat would have drifted sideways . |
| 22 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 23 | If only the wind would have picked up , the fog would have been dispersed quickly . |
| 24 | Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’ |
| 25 | Tranmere would have won more comfortably if Aldridge , the League 's leading scorer with 38 goals , had managed to convert a fortuitous penalty , awarded for a handling offence by Butters . |
| 26 | The occupation force would have come in to settle Vaagon . ’ |
| 27 | Everything would be ‘ in the melting pot ’ ; centuries of settled case law would be jettisoned , lost ; the whole process of building up the case law would have to start again ; or the definition would have to be construed and interpreted in the light of the old case law , with attendant problems . |
| 28 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 29 | For most delegates the interesting part of the Conference is the address of the General Secretary , Ciaran Ryan in a wide-ranging and thought provoking address reviewed the events of the past ‘ eventful two years ’ , looked at current issues and outlined some of the specific issues which the incoming Executive Committee would have to take up , Jobs , their retention and creation were major issues and closely connected was the position of part-time workers in the industry who were exploited in many instances and also temporary staff who were ‘ fired and let go and threatened at the drop of a hat ’ . |
| 30 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |