Example sentences of "this [noun sg] would have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition .
2 Once again , no stops were required ( other than the usual safety stop at three metres ) and there was a feeling that this computer would have coped with far more strenuous dives with ease .
3 A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ .
4 Those who first heard this story would have understood well enough that if the rebel leaders were to be punished , then the other members of their families might have to suffer with them .
5 If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically .
6 Inclusion of this case would have strengthened our conclusions about the period 1963–83 .
7 Under the law before 1968 the facts of this case would have led to charges , to which there would have been no defence , of obtaining goods by false pretences .
8 While the example of Kepler illustrates the influence of artistic practice on a ‘ scientist ’ ( which is not Kemp 's primary concern ) , discussion of this instance would have enhanced considerably the author 's argument that both the theory and practice of perspective were significant resources for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century .
9 But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening .
10 This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable
11 This practice would have to continue , so the government would have first to buy the data from whoever ends up operating the craft .
12 I do not think this association would have put Flaubert off .
13 In support of that Mr. Moses pointed to the surprising , and indeed unlikely , lacunae which this Act would have left in the field of interference with computers if the construction for which Mr. Lassman contends were correct .
14 If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind .
15 We have never gone away from the fact that the town plan and the policy statement in there that if the road was provided the land is in the town plan and this Council would have approved it .
16 This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule .
17 ( I digress for a moment to point out that , while this proposal would have included obtaining by false pretences within the definition of stealing , that was not the option preferred by the committee , as your Lordships will have noted . )
18 Mr Ridley said : ‘ It is clear from the MMC's report that this proposal would have reduced competition in the period before the tunnel is operational ( in 1993 ) .
19 If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market .
20 If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market .
21 What is needed is more detailed analysis , not only anthropological but philosophical , of the demands that any explanations of this sort would have to meet .
22 Example continued Class time The children examine original documents loaned from the local library , showing what a parish register from this period would have looked like .
23 I 'm good at my job and anybody who wants to run this place would have to recognise the fact .
24 The Government points out that , for example , although this group would have lost entitlement to supplementary assistance , 1.2 million of them would have gained entitlement to standard housing benefit .
25 Under the supplementary benefit scheme , many of this group would have qualified for the householder rate — valued at £30.40 .
26 Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case .
27 At that time there were two or three hundred Viscounts flying in various parts of the world , and to have grounded all Viscounts because the wings had come off in flight in this accident would have contributed nothing to air safety .
28 Of course — as Titmuss pointed out — had the Luftwaffe launched an all-out offensive on 3 September 1939 , as everyone expected , this scenario would have come about .
29 A formal papal judgement on this point would have dispelled all doubts .
30 And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way .
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