Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |
| 2 | If the NEA had n't said anything about the Mapplethorpe show , nobody would really have complained . |
| 3 | Secondly , I wanted to create a factory where nobody would ever have to do any physical work . |
| 4 | If there is any truth in this , and it seems quite convincing , somebody would surely have to make way for him . |
| 5 | In this case , the laws of science would determine the universe completely ; one would not have to appeal to some agency external to the universe to determine how it began . |
| 6 | One would not have believed his grubby Lada capable of such manoeuvres as he coaxed from its grinding engine but , after a moment of horror , I sat back and enjoyed the ride . |
| 7 | Had that been the case with the National Bus Company , one would not have quarrelled with it . |
| 8 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 10 | But , he admits , one would not have happened without the other . |
| 11 | One would however have to go much further than this . |
| 12 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |
| 13 | If this is so , one would also have to doubt the veracity of the particular prescription which these writers propose . |
| 14 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 15 | One would n't have wanted to split up the family . ’ |
| 16 | But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ? |
| 17 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 18 | I suspect that it would be cheaper to collect a tonne of rubbish in Lambeth on the basis of an annual sweep of the streets because , to pick up a tonne of rubbish there , one would hardly have to stir from the spot . |
| 19 | These are serious painters , Exekias ( like Nearchos before him ) showing sometimes a sensitivity of feeling one would hardly have thought attainable in this formal decorative medium . |
| 20 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 21 | That is to say , roughly , that if the effect occurred , and no other causal circumstance for it but one existed , that one would still have existed even if most other things had been different . |
| 22 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 23 | The additional strain may in the end be more rewarding , more life-enhancing than one would ever have felt possible . |
| 24 | Next time Sam rolled the curtain up , Harry would have drifted quietly out of here , I should think , and no one would ever have known he 'd been here . |
| 25 | No one would ever have looked for him there . |
| 26 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 27 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 28 | No one would then have anticipated Magureanu 's distinguished future . |
| 29 | Gasworks Olympic contenders … oh , Jeez , Nutty thought : something would just have to turn up , or else the whole thing was a dead duck . |
| 30 | In a recent interview with The Spectator Lord Denning , former Master of the Rolls — one of the highest judicial positions in England — commented that he felt the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six should have been hung because everyone would then have forgotten about them . |