Example sentences of "the [noun pl] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 2 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 3 | The introduction is lucid but many of the essays would have benefited from editing after translation . |
| 4 | Whatever values and viewpoints were embodied in the acts would have ultimately been those that were acceptable to the promoters . |
| 5 | Steven Spielberg 's dinosaurs are frightening enough … but none of the experts would have wanted to encounter a real-life sea dragon . |
| 6 | In many another house , the flames would have spread along the top story , but not here . |
| 7 | Had PW qualified the accounts , it believed , the shareholders would have withdrawn their support and BCCI would have collapsed . |
| 8 | ‘ If you had n't put the chain on the gate , the signs would have stopped the human , ’ said Nisodemus . |
| 9 | As an alternative to imprisonment , the courts would have discretion to sentence offenders , with their consent , to between forty and 240 hours of community service work . |
| 10 | It would seem , therefore , that the courts would have little opportunity to sentence in cases where proof of injury was not available . |
| 11 | If the island fell the Germans would have a free hand throughout the area . |
| 12 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
| 13 | Which they I you ken they were all all the houses would have about harvest time . |
| 14 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 15 | The plans would have to be altered accordingly and that meant first attending to some unfinished business at Lausanne station . |
| 16 | For this reason , much of the incentive provided to schemes in the south ( and to retail schemes virtually everywhere ) was unnecessary — the projects would have in any case gone ahead . |
| 17 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |
| 18 | For Labour , the proposals would have gone well beyond conference policy . |
| 19 | He said the proposals would have to be approved by the engineering department . |
| 20 | The Russians would have absolute superiority over not only the air , but space as well . |
| 21 | Perhaps the Russians would have felt the pressure then and not looked so silky on the ball . |
| 22 | The Russians would have removed any possible clues from the suite by now . |
| 23 | To launch an attack , the Russians would have to bring troops from beyond the Urals — which would mean a serious breach of the East-West treaty on the stationing of conventional forces in Europe . |
| 24 | Ambassador Bonsal states , ‘ I do not believe that the Russians would have taken sugar from Cuba which the United States was prepared to purchase . |
| 25 | The British sent troops to defend the Abadan refinery and made a secret deal with the Russians whereby at the end of the war the Russians would have control of Istanbul and the Dardanelles , and Iran would be divided between them , the Russians in the North , the British in the South , and the British influential in the " neutral " zone , where the oil was to be founded . |
| 26 | Souness added that he accepted Liverpool had lost to a better team , but still wondered how the Russians would have reacted had the Reds accepted one of their early half chances . |
| 27 | Three-quarters of all the cases would have resulted from heterosexual transmission . |
| 28 | An agreement announced on Nov. 5 confirmed that the Saudis would have ultimate command of fighting to defend the Kingdom , but that US forces based there could proceed independently in action outside Saudi territory . |
| 29 | This was a tragic loss to Australia because the blood-lines would have been extremely useful . |
| 30 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |