Example sentences of "people would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 2 | If there is to be any criticism of our play , it is in relation to our tactical awareness , to the fact that we sometimes made wrong choices which more experienced people would not have made ’ . |
| 3 | Most of the rotundas , however , provoked a sombre reaction , though Ladislav pointed out that many of the younger people would not have recognised the faces of Novotný and Gottwald even if they knew the names . |
| 4 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 5 | Though most people would not have found it flattering , she did . |
| 6 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 7 | Fifty years ago most people would not have thought of RE in such terms . |
| 8 | Do n't forget that when they first did this , people would not have had personal watches . |
| 9 | Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be . |
| 10 | We were talking on the subject of erm divorce in in yesterday morning 's programme and this idea that erm the the whole procedure of getting a divorce som er would be speeded up and there 'd be something called , No faults divorce , so that people would n't have to point accusatory fingers at one another . |
| 11 | The funny thing is that er if you look at the better dividend funds in the year of the crash , the dividends actually went up , cos dividend yields from companies were good in that year , so people would n't have lost out , their income would have been quite stable . |
| 12 | People would just have shrugged their shoulders . |
| 13 | But where other people would probably have covered the past in a coat of paint , the building 's new young occupants , the Stewarts have happily let it be and turned their decorative attentions to the interior instead . |
| 14 | It seemed to Marie that people would only have to take one look at her to see that she did n't belong in these surroundings . |
| 15 | ( The average amount which people would actually have to pay after allowing for relief and benefits would fall to under £175 in Great Britain as a whole . ) |
| 16 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |