Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed change would have prevented the older couple from being evicted unless they had consented either to the mortgage or the later sale . |
| 2 | Delegates blocked the election of former ZSL Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Kazimierz Olesiak , as chairman of the newly named party , feeling he would have hindered the broader moves towards the reunification of the peasant movement , electing instead Jozef Zych . |
| 3 | In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place , gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting . |
| 4 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 5 | She would have thought the better of him for it as well , Lugh knew he could be sure of that . |
| 6 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 7 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 8 | ‘ I think the ordeal of the big occasion would have affected me and my nerves would have got the better of me . |