Example sentences of "which they would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 2 | The new Germany was to bind Prussia in and neutralise her : it was to accord a security to the other states which they would otherwise have lacked . |
| 3 | There was a fear that as such centres were validated , local colleges would see a reduction in the number of students which they would otherwise have expected to attract . |
| 4 | This is the Government who have stopped pensioners getting an annual increase in line with Community living standards , a deliberate act of policy in 1980 , which cumulatively so far — according to a parliamentary answer to me on 25 November last — has removed from pensioners £31.8 billion of improved pensions which they would otherwise have had . |
| 5 | This was not uncommon in some mining districts and even existed in the craft trade of hat making , the artisans who took in their wives to pick the coarse hairs from their material saving the 6 to 9s ( 30-45p ) a week which they would otherwise have had to pay from their wage . |
| 6 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 7 | When the emperor took his turn at dinner pouring the tea , an unimaginable reversal of protocol , his awestruck fellow-travellers tapped the table to signify the kow-tows of abasement which they would ordinarily have been performing before him . |
| 8 | Now although there will obviously be occasions when this belief is warranted , when learners are of an age , for example , at which they would not have the capacity or disposition for analytic self-reflection , there seems no good reason for supposing that the belief is universally valid . |
| 9 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 10 | When the police were billeted in the colliery , the safety men came to work , which they would not have done but for the presence of the police . |
| 11 | RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case . |
| 12 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 13 | Jobbers often faced one-way markets in which they would either have to buy a greater number of shares than they had sold ( go ‘ long ’ ) or they had bought ( go ‘ short ’ ) . |
| 14 | As an age-group , a stage of life , adolescents stood , clearly visible , defined and itemized , the embodiment of so many of the tensions and contradictions peculiar to the period , without which they would never have been ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 15 | That three and a half years changed my life completely and set my feet on paths which they would never have taken if the war had not occurred . |