Example sentences of "[coord] that would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 2 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 3 | And that would have made her miserable . " |
| 4 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 5 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 7 | Just that little bit harder and that would have gone in there . |
| 8 | And that would have led them to their own Special Branch registry , where there must be a file on his career as a freelance ; it was inevitable after that damned publicity . |
| 9 | It 's not a lifetime annuity , and that would have grown to replace his er capital . |
| 10 | Eric Brown and Christy O'Connor also needed par-4s at the last and that would have put them into a playoff with each other . |
| 11 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 12 | But that would 've tied in again with , with the beginning because what is affordable erm would he get the benefits that he was wanting at the end of it . |
| 13 | It would have been easier to delete the file form the outside , but that would have mindwiped Daine , Tunney and herself . |
| 14 | This would have been very difficult , because the site is on a low hill and some means would have had to be found for overcoming the unfavourable gradients ; a siphon effect has been suggested , but that would have involved making the whole length of piping airtight , which seems scarcely credible . |
| 15 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 16 | Cars , of course , could and should have been excluded but that would have spoiled the fun . |
| 17 | They held on , kept Millwall out ; came close to a fourth but that would have flattered Swindon : 3-1 and a happy new year at the county ground . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , but that would have become progressively more risky as people began to stir . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We could have said woodland instead of forest but that would have conveyed the idea of something small . |
| 20 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 21 | I could have got money for some of them , but that would have meant delays . ’ |
| 22 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 23 | George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours . |
| 24 | But that would have solved nothing . |