Example sentences of "that would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 my Lord well no doubt then the answer is that erm that would eventually have to meet them through funds which they will bring in to the market and which will go into the , the central fund
2 And this is what happens with this , as the years proceed you 're getting interest on the previous year 's interest which includes the tax that you would otherwise , that would otherwise have gone from your account in paying into income tax .
3 Marks and Spencer now sell pink silk shorts for men — 40 years ago that would probably have got you locked up …
4 That would just have to do .
5 And that would mostly have gone on booze and horses .
6 Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either .
7 That would n't have happened after The Baker 's Wife .
8 That would n't have happened to McEllhoney , the big Glaswegian who worked the next beat to his .
9 And this was , this , that , that would n't have entered into that brief but my argument was that , you know everybody would be much happier if there was less rubbish to put in the landfill sites in the first place .
10 The sick need to be able to depend on people visiting when they say they will and that would n't have suited Hereward at all .
11 ‘ No , ’ he replied , ‘ that would n't have worked .
12 That would n't have surprised him at all .
13 And I 'm not saying that 's the reason but clearly that is er factor and and certainly some of the points we were making about distribution of traffic er on the western side of harrogate er clearly that would n't have had the benefits of providing that that connection on the western side , it would have concentrated all connections between Harrogate and Knaresborough and given rise to more concentrated local traffic effects in that area than would be the case er with an outer western er relief road .
14 that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted .
15 ‘ But that would n't have meant a thing to Elise , would it ?
16 That would n't have hurt as much as — as coming back here ! ’
17 And that would n't have occurred that weekend on the Ropewalk if there 'd have been a proper programme , of empty emptying gullies .
18 And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody .
19 Pakistan claim the ball was changed under Law 5 simply because it had gone soft — but that would not have needed the intervention of the match referee .
20 I mean that would all have to come off , all the lot would n't it ?
21 We never tried to see one another 's faces : that would perhaps have spoiled the purity of the experience .
22 That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock .
23 He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held .
24 That would never have done .
25 And that would never have done !
26 Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened .
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