Example sentences of "it would have [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 2 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 3 | In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy . |
| 4 | It would have made her task easier if he 'd still been in the bitter , brutal mood that had possessed him after William Ash had delivered his ultimatum , but she did n't understand him at present . |
| 5 | Second , because the Serbs ' provinces under the plan were not contiguous , it would have made their dream of a Greater Serbia impossible . |
| 6 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |
| 7 | The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q . |
| 8 | However this was not a material irregularity ; the Court had heard the tape and had the jury done so , it would have confirmed their views , expressed in the verdict of guilty , because they would have heard the gruff , bass voice of the appellant , as described by the victim in his evidence , and any lingering hesitation they might have felt would have been dispelled . |
| 9 | Once it had achieved this , if it was to go any further it would have to arouse their interest . |
| 10 | It would have given her infinite satisfaction to watch Adam being frogmarched to the door . |
| 11 | If the Labour Party wished to participate in government it would have to shed its Marxist-Trotskyist wing or make it impotent . " |
| 12 | When she had taught Sarah to read and write it had been her textbook , and it would have broken her heart if she 'd heard such a tirade after all her patient teaching . |
| 13 | It would have saved her having to watch this grisly ritual , the burying of her son 's remains . |
| 14 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 15 | It would have involved his consortium ploughing between £10m and £15m into the troubled Eagle as part of a recapitalisation that would have left them controlling 29.9 per cent of Eagle 's equity . |
| 16 | If he 'd broken her arm , she doubted that it would have altered his tone or his attitude in any way . |
| 17 | Wordsworth 's painting would have been ‘ a mine of peaceful years , etc. ’ ( lines 21–32 ) ; that is , it would have represented his youthful ideas about life , which he really thought were true , though he now sees that they were deluded ( line 29 ) . |
| 18 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 19 | Beth had heard the manner in which the old man had addressed her husband , and it would have gladdened her heart to hear him snap back ; just for once to tell the old villain to ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ |
| 20 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 21 | ‘ Any higher , it would have hit his eye . ’ |
| 22 | I see it is that had it worked it would have fulfilled their ideology . |
| 23 | It would have fulfilled their ideological aims . |
| 24 | The plane 's own electrical system , of course , has ceased to function , so it would have to have its own supply system , almost certainly battery-powered . |
| 25 | ‘ It would have doubled his stipend , ’ the Bishop said , looking sadly at the remaining inch in the gin bottle . |
| 26 | If Ludo 's club had reached the spieler 's head it would have caved his skull in . |
| 27 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 28 | It would have taken its occupants hours to get to the Cluanie Inn for a pint from there . |
| 29 | But you know it 's funny how why it was so I mean the grit and those were quite sharp you know You you 'd have thought that it would have taken your skin but then it was ideal stuff for getting the grease the you know the dirt and I mean the the greasy dirt away . |
| 30 | It would have taken our ancestors considerably longer to do the same job 2,000 years ago . |