Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had not had medical knowledge , their mental problems would have surfaced in some other form . |
| 2 | Councillors , conservation groups and the public joined forces to condemn the transfer , which would have involved between 65 and 70 articulated lorry movements for ten hours a day in each direction , six days a week . |
| 3 | The legislation , which would have applied to some 50 per cent of US employees , had been passed by the House on May 10 and by the Senate on June 14 . |
| 4 | Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number . |
| 5 | But she lived in the shadow of her sporty sisters and her mother who was ‘ captain of everything ’ when she was at school and would have played at Junior Wimbledon but for an attack of appendicitis . |
| 6 | About one hundred seconds after the big bang , the temperature would have fallen to one thousand million degrees , the temperature inside the hottest stars . |
| 7 | If wages per head had not increased , the share of GDP accounted for by consumption out of wage earnings would have fallen from 52 per cent in 1952 to 31 per cent in 1970 ; this would have required an inconceivable rise in other types of spending ( by capitalists and government ) if the increase in production was to be sold . |
| 8 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 9 | The value of the deposit at the end of two months would have fallen from 1,015,007.80 to 1,014,621.23 , which represents a loss of 386.57 . |
| 10 | What disruption carefully organised and constantly renewed bomb attacks would have wreaked upon this communications ' artery ( i.e. the Voie Sacrée ) , crammed to the most extreme limits of its capacity , requires no details . |
| 11 | Yet outside of her home in east Belfast , few people in tennis would have heard of 16 year old Zara Wolsley . |
| 12 | Here , he would have heard of poor Mansfield 's terrible death following a naphtha fire in a derelict building in St Pancras , as well as of G. F. Wilson 's new processes for producing cheap glycerin soaps and ( Price 's patents ) candles from low-grade fats , and of Abel and Spiller 's progress at Woolwich Arsenal on organo-nitrate explosives . |
| 13 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 14 | Rosalba would have twitched at such words , but Cati was so used to them , she only wavered because she was wondering how to give him her message , and she thought he was going to turn . |
| 15 | The Sergeant was a very good piper and would have gone on all night . |
| 16 | But who would have gone to such lengths to scare her , and why ? |
| 17 | Now the loss will be converted to a profit of around £65,000 — money which would have gone to Tblisi as qualifiers for the European Cup first round proper . |
| 18 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 19 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 20 | If he had not been with them , he would have gone through that town quite safely . |
| 21 | Many less well-equipped ships would have gone through that interlink only at Firstlight speed , and then nervously — because of the horror tales of ships that slid through the wrong slots and were caught in endless loops round and round the interlink for centuries . |
| 22 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 23 | The onus is upon you to show that you have suffered loss and , if you have suffered no loss because your job would have ended in any event , there will be a nil award . |
| 24 | The furtiveness and fear of discovery that end Laura 's and Alec 's relationship comprise a set of emotions that Coward would have felt with particular force and poignancy , and which gay men ever since have responded to with recognition and admiration . |
| 25 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have felt like that to Danny , ’ said Rachel . |
| 27 | ‘ There are lots of women like me around that you would have felt like this about if you 'd met them . ’ |
| 28 | They could increase their holdings of capital , by charging more in depreciation than they would have charged in principal repayments . |
| 29 | Many other top-ranked players , including Norman , would have buckled under such pressure but that statement epitomises the courage of the man . |
| 30 | So most of the electrons and antielectrons would have annihilated with each other to produce more photons , leaving only a few electrons left over . |