Example sentences of "[Wh pn] would have [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Barbara Burrell of the University of Cincinnati commented , ‘ Some experts have suggested that the palace 's position between the theatre and the stadium may not be consistent with Herod 's personality as a paranoid who would have wanted to distance himself from the people of the city of Caeserea . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're at a very early stage in all this , Minister , but can you think of anyone who would have wanted to harm Miss Morgan ? ’ |
| 3 | It shifts the onus of proof in convictions from the police , who currently have to prove intent , to the public , who would have to justify carrying any sharpened blade . |
| 4 | However , I am not at all surprised that many who would have profited had they won did not so vote . |
| 5 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes think you hate everyone , ’ said Betty , who would have liked to go round India on a bicycle in an orange robe looking for an Enlightened One . |
| 7 | Though popularity did not necessarily translate into greater recognition in official circles , it did inhibit those in the two governments who would have liked to ditch him altogether . |
| 8 | No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands . |
| 9 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 10 | The overall effect is that the morally indefensible opportunist appears as a very human figure , a man who would have liked to have had his cake and eaten it and who , forced to make choices , alternates between self-congratulation and a sense of self-betrayal . |
| 11 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is one of those who would have liked to sign the amendment . |
| 12 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century it had been an important re-export , which may have irritated planters who would have liked to export directly to the eventual destination . |
| 14 | By the mid-1980s there were very few people who would have pretended to understand all the ramifications of Grant Related Expenditure Assessments , rate-capping or capital controls . |
| 15 | Again the shadow was in her eyes , and Fergus , who would have wished to know more of this , felt her retreat a little from him . |
| 16 | To a differing degree , all the Gospels portray Pontius Pilate , the Governor of Judaea from 26 to 36 AD , as a man who was reluctant to condemn Jesus and who would have preferred to set him free . |
| 17 | The buoyant economy at the end of the eighties of course helped in part by increasing road congestion , forcing many to take the train who would have preferred to drive . |
| 18 | The early retirers in the After Redundancy study were split evenly between those who wanted to retire and those who would have preferred to work on . |
| 19 | ( This compares , incidentally , with just over one-quarter of those who retired at the normal pension ages who would have preferred to keep on working . ) |
| 20 | Over supper on 20 January 1689 ( English style ) , Louis persuaded James , who would have preferred to begin the recovery of his lost throne via Scotland , to respond to Tyrconnel 's plea , offering a handsome contribution in money and arms plus five experienced officers to help train the raw Irish troops and a diplomatic adviser , formerly French envoy at the Hague . |
| 21 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
| 22 | He had been dimly aware of the sound of an approaching car , and there was only one person who would have bothered to seek him out . |
| 23 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 24 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 25 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 26 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 27 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |