Example sentences of "in [num] would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 2 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 3 | A mere 84 votes spread over three marginal constituencies — Brighton Kemptown ( Lab majority seven ) , Ealing North ( 27 ) and Wellingborough ( 47 ) — in 1964 would have blocked the Wilson Government . |
| 4 | The four-fold hike in oil prices in 1973 would have devastated the world economy had inflation not come to the rescue of western consumers by reducing the real burden of dearer oil . |
| 5 | To this day it is the Industrial and Provident Societies Act ; and none in 1852 would have denied the need to encourage the working classes to provide for themselves . |
| 6 | The attentive listener present at the English coronation of Henry VI in 1429 would have heard the young king being exhorted to avenge injustices ( ‘ ulciscaris iniusta ’ ) and to be ‘ the powerful defender of his country … triumphant over the enemy ’ ( ‘ sit fortissimus protector patrie … triumphator hostium ’ ) . |
| 7 | During the 1980s income growth in unit trusts has been high ( £1000 invested in a unit trust in 1989 would have yielded £142 , compared with £81 in a building society ) . |
| 8 | A phone call in 1955 would have set you back less than one new penny . |
| 9 | A Law government in 1915 would have included hardly any more MPs from a business background than Disraeli 's 1874 Ministry or Salisbury 's of 1895 . |
| 10 | A coalition in 1910 would have excluded Ulster , Irish Nationalists , and Labour ; coalition in 1915 excluded anti-war MPs and diehards . |