Example sentences of "which would have [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jarvis , who spent £40m expanding the chain on the Continent in recent years , said the decision followed Whitbread 's inability to negotiate a new exit clause in the franchise agreement which would have given it more protection . |
| 2 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 3 | And I was not in the position to show the sternness which would have nipped it all in the bud . |
| 4 | To start with , though his new car was an excellent and reliable machine , it lacked that complete superiority over its competitors which would have made it — as the Lotus , say , did for Mario Andretti — a necessary world-beater . |
| 5 | Japanese sources gave the R2Y1 an estimated maximum speed of 493mph and a range of 2,400 miles , which would have made it invulnerable . |
| 6 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 7 | Your tentative benefit was not perhaps as clear as it might have been which would have made it easier to lead into my willingness to proceed . |
| 8 | All it meant was I could attack the trial in the job , which would have made it better for me , or from outside the job . ’ |
| 9 | This is necessary as a result of property writedown which would have left it in breach of its £350 million net worth banking covenant . |
| 10 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 11 | This suggested a hung parliament with Neil Kinnock leading a minority government , and Tory campaigners are furious that the BBC did not mention the party 's share of the vote , which would have shown it performing much better than predicted . |