Example sentences of "what it would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 2 | Although the laser printed sheet is only in black and white the rostrum camera operator can add the colours optically and generate a very high quality slide for around half what it would have cost to produce using a ‘ conventional ’ electronic system . |
| 3 | Each team 's goal is to determine what it would have to do to be first class and then to handle things its own way . |
| 4 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 5 | I just tried to imagine what it would have felt like , but could n't draw on any past experiences . ’ |
| 6 | This is our actual workload and this is what it would have happened if we 'd followed the M R C er protocols . |
| 7 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 8 | And trying to recreate what it would have looked like . |
| 9 | But scientists have reconstructed it showing what it would have looked like . |
| 10 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 11 | Clare thought of telling her what it would have meant to her as a young girl to have a nicely furnished room to herself — what it would mean to her now for that matter — but sensed that such remarks would serve no useful purpose . |