Example sentences of "[n mass] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh Aye you had to Some people would have went mad with getting them |
| 32 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 33 | Her clothes were so fashionable that the country people would have noticed her . |
| 34 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 35 | The ‘ doomsters ’ would have been discredited , and you can be sure that plenty of people would have pointed this out forcefully . |
| 36 | Most people would have reacted as you did . |
| 37 | Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money . |
| 38 | We had two other rooms on the ground floor , a sort of kitchen and what most people would have called a large cupboard , but which Grace liked to describe as the parlour . |
| 39 | How would it look if I suddenly disappeared for weeks — leaving a gap that other people would have to fill — because my wife 's grandmother is ill on the other side of the world ? ’ |
| 40 | By the end of the period of imperial expansion , in the middle of the twentieth century , it was widely believed that everyone in the world should be a citizen of an independent and sovereign state and should have the same rights as all the other citizens in the state , but in 1500 very few people would have understood such a notion . |
| 41 | People would have grabbed door handles to get out and been sucked into the fabric of the door . |
| 42 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 43 | Similarly , if the DSS had used the European equivalence scales , a further 1.3 million people would have appeared below the poverty line . |
| 44 | People would have lived happily if it was n't for the troubles instigated by the government and the Jewish Agency . ’ |
| 45 | Most people would have run for their lives . |
| 46 | He was not the type to make a fuss as some people would have done , but he was very fed up about it . |
| 47 | I would of thought you of all people would have done that you know ! |
| 48 | But traditionally such people would have done , er and perhaps in earlier times you know , er maybe Mrs Thatcher does say some prayers , I do n't know , but maybe prayers would be said . |
| 49 | I have no funds to be able to pay for such material , so people would have to realise that no payment could be made — their only reward would be possibly seeing their work in print . |
| 50 | ‘ I guess you polite English people would have suffered in silence , would n't you ? ’ |
| 51 | Maybe a few years ago people would have disapproved . |
| 52 | Fifteen people would have packed the place out . |
| 53 | Most people would have regarded what is happening in the Soviet Union as a matter of some importance , not a matter for the fourth-form behaviour that we see on the Opposition Benches . |
| 54 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 55 | And I 'd keep a very careful record and it 'd be on display , the day of the fête , people would have to guess the number of matchsticks in it altogether . ’ |
| 56 | people would have got drums |
| 57 | As a result , there might have been some minor publicity , but how right my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) was : people would have talked about there being no smoke without fire . |
| 58 | You 'd have thought that by now his publicity people would have come up with something a little more attractive . |
| 59 | But then he asks himself if people would have enjoyed the story any more had it been true , and if they would have achieved any greater insight into themselves and their destinies . |
| 60 | Suggestions that some representative element be added to the government , an idea which very few people would have taken seriously before the 1750s , were now being put forward . |