Example sentences of "[det] would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would however have involved a fairly cumbersome organisation , with regional committees and large numbers of volunteers trained to talk about money management to schoolchildren . |
| 2 | How the other tribes lined up against Rome it is impossible to say , but the presence of army units in their territory probably kept the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii quiet , and this would also have applied to the northern Dobunni with a cavalry regiment at Cirencester , but their allegiance was to Rome anyway . |
| 3 | This would also have reproduced John 's set-up more closely as well , since he had a large group of about 20 adults . |
| 4 | The shank was inserted into a circular socket on the handle for rigidity , and this would also have allowed the handle to be reused if such proved necessary . |
| 5 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 6 | ‘ You need a women 's movement in your country , this would n't have happened to me back home , ’ one said , more in surprise than in anger . |
| 7 | Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe . |
| 8 | this would n't have happened . |
| 9 | This would not have served for vaults , and the stamped lead plate remained the more usual item in such instances . |
| 10 | This would not have pleased the old 19th century residents who took care to have the information ‘ of South Newbald ’ or ‘ of North Newbald ’ recorded on their tombstones . |
| 11 | If the distribution of births by social class between 1965 and 1976 and the propensity of each class to enter HE had remained constant then this would not have affected the demand for HE . |
| 12 | Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ . |
| 13 | Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition . |
| 14 | But if Hardy 's Virgilianism had been pointed out to Pound , this would not have counted in Hardy 's favour . |
| 15 | This would not have mattered if the US government , instead of giving special bilateral help only to Mexico had taken earlier , bigger steps to ease the pain of adjustment for all the major debtors . |
| 16 | In normal circumstances this would not have mattered , but at the time Rhodesia was meant to be enduring the most severe and effective economic sanctions , particularly with regard to the supply of oil . |
| 17 | In the past , this would not have mattered much , provided one drug was eventually a winner . |
| 18 | This would not have had the same meaning as it has today for the term park originally meant land enclosed to keep beasts for hunting or ornamental purposes . |
| 19 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 20 | This would not have happened in Simpsons , thought Mrs Grandison grimly . |
| 21 | ‘ This would not have happened with Mr Chatto or Mr Windus , ’ said the female novelist , as Penelope at last managed to get her out of the building . |
| 22 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |
| 23 | She felt sometimes that he did n't know how spirited she could be , and this would certainly have shown him ! |
| 24 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 25 | People murmured that this would never have happened in Cromwell 's day , albeit secretly for fear of the authorities . |
| 26 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 27 | This would never have happened before Boldwood fell in love with Bathsheba . |
| 28 | Back in the workhouse this would never have happened . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She also said if he 'd gone like he said he was going to , this would never have happened and they would all have been a lot better off . ’ |
| 30 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |