Example sentences of "[pn reflx] would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 2 | Indeed in one section , concerned with the effects of improvement and major repairs on the number of houses to be replaced , the report comments that ‘ Solomon himself would not have known the correct answer ’ . |
| 3 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 4 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 5 | Ken himself would never have participated in such carrying-ons . |
| 6 | He knew now that he himself would never have made a flyer . |
| 7 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 8 | Once Paul 's cult began to crystallise as a religion in itself , rather than a form of Judaism , it dictated certain priorities which had not obtained in Jesus 's lifetime and which Jesus himself would unquestionably have deplored . |
| 9 | John himself would hardly have deigned to enter the parish church with a child of his , and may have sent his wife instead : ‘ If you want her baptised , dear , you go and do it … |
| 10 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 11 | It is submitted that there was no need to make a different order from an interim care order in order to achieve that end , because the stated intention of the local authority was to maintain the relationship between the mother and the children , as has been evidenced by what has happened since , and that the interim care order in itself would not have affected bonding , indeed the whole of the exercise was to maintain the bonding of the children with the mother . |
| 12 | If ice did not float , pond life would not survive the winter , which means that life itself would not have survived in our climate . |
| 13 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 14 | She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs . |
| 15 | A moralistic middle-class press or the civic or football authorities themselves would never have ignored systematic gang-violence either in football grounds or around them . |