Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If all the persistent readers of Tory tabloids had behaved like those who read Labour tabloids , Labour would have benefited from a 3 per cent swing ( compared to the actual election result ) . |
| 32 | My right hon. Friend said that Labour would have signed in full . |
| 33 | To adequately deal with the rise in the informal sector and the return of the competitive labour market , organized labour would have to start asking some fundamental questions about the distribution of wealth and power in capitalist societies . |
| 34 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 35 | David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich . |
| 36 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would have liked to be here this evening because I know well that he has been a tremendous support to my hon. and learned Friend and his family in many small and touching ways , which I know have been deeply appreciated . |
| 37 | I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected . |
| 38 | The Leader of the Opposition would have signed the treaty without the debate at Maastricht — he would have accepted anything that M. Delors put in front of him . |
| 39 | ‘ Because , ’ Doctor Agrippa intervened , ‘ he probably thought that you or Shallot would have discovered something during your travels in Scotland and France to trap him . ’ |
| 40 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 41 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 44 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 45 | Under the Working Paper 's proposals , therefore , vaginal penetration by the penis would have remained the focus of sexual offences legislation . |
| 46 | Unshielded , and with real blades , the stroke would have decapitated him . |
| 47 | First , had proportional representation been in force in 1983 , then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government on their own and coalition would have forced a moderation of policies . |
| 48 | Problems could be surmounted but the American delegation would have to show a far more positive attitude than hitherto revealed . |
| 49 | President Hosni Mubarak has said any delegation would have to have PLO blessing . |
| 50 | Throwing up his career like a Gauguin and turning his back on civilisation would have meant the end of financial support for both of them . |
| 51 | It is obvious how this affair had to end : the political logic of the contest would have made the gamble ‘ adventurist ’ even if the military logic had not . |
| 52 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 53 | Fenna would have killed her . |
| 54 | In such an action the third defendant would have to plead that he had inflicted loss on the plaintiffs by conspiracy or fraud and had been required to compensate the plaintiffs for such loss . |
| 55 | Where the defendant claims that as a result of intoxication , he did not realise that his conduct was or might be regarded as threatening , abusive or insulting , the magistrates must make a determination as to what they considered that the defendant would have realised had he been sober , and the conclusion that he would have realised will be virtually inevitable . |
| 56 | However , the defendant would have to agree to compensate the plaintiff for any such short-term injury caused , obviously regardless of the outcome of the litigation as a whole . |
| 57 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 58 | However , the Court of Appeal gave the plaintiff his costs of the appeal because it was unlikely that the defendant would have allowed him to take out from the sum paid into court an amount equal to the increased amount the Court of Appeal eventually awarded him . |
| 59 | And under a procedure known as ‘ reversal of the burden of proof ’ the defendant would have to prove he did not commit the damage rather than the other way round . |
| 60 | ‘ I dread to think what levels the violence would have reached , given the huge amounts of weapons and explosives available to the terrorists now , if those rallies had n't happened . |