Example sentences of "[vb base] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his travels throughout the galaxy doubtless Googol would have heard many rumours , despite best official efforts to suppress scaremongering talk . |
| 2 | Therefore , total transactions cost would have been 43.50 and the net profit after costs would have been 366.50 . |
| 3 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 4 | Whatever I read would have been to the accompaniment of music — one of my three favourite composers , Beethoven , Mozart or Schubert — and a long drawn out glass or two of post-prandial port . |
| 5 | In attempting to develop a new collective sense of Englishness , intellectuals and administrators alike applied themselves to what , at an earlier ( and indeed later ) time would have been seen as an " un-English " and idealist version of the national life . |
| 6 | Would of been right , you know would have been a nightmare , expected to all over the place . |
| 7 | Do you know would have happened , but you know would have happened , right , erm Bernard do you mind if I smoke ? |
| 8 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 9 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 10 | Probably Anselm would have been well advised to comply . |
| 11 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 12 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 13 | Moreover , Bridgeman justified his actions to Balfour in terms which Maxse would have approved , arguing that Balfour seemed to be ‘ surrounded by men who are not in touch with the mass of the Party ’ , complaining of ‘ the extraordinary difference in perspective which party questions assume inside the House from that presented by them to the man in the street ’ and voicing suspicions about the secrecy of Parliamentary procedures such as ‘ the pourparlers of the whips of both sides ’ . |
| 14 | It 's you making the decisions and doing the work and although I am not suggesting that you will catch twice as many pike , you will certainly catch some which a fast surface retrieve would have missed . |
| 15 | Thank you , i do you feel a little uneasy at changing operational requirements based on er an assessment of a threat in nineteen ninety two , ninety three , which I presume would have to remain valid until two thousand and twenty . |
| 16 | The door of the back kitchen went down two steps and then there was a chimney corner with shaped stonework , which I think would have had a wooden seat long ago . |
| 17 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 18 | For some , this fundamental weakness of the created counterfactual makes the whole exercise untenable ; for others ( see Peacock 1974 ) it is a question of plausibility ; i.e. what you think would have been the case must be plausible . |
| 19 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 20 | Are there any particular topics that you think would have been useful to have seen in the course that were n't ? |
| 21 | But in Locke 's day it was normal and Locke 's contemporaries I think would have had no problem understanding this what he meant . |
| 22 | Somerset 's last wicket fell at 6.15pm , and in the ordinary course of events play would have been suspended for the day . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd 've thought that Arise would have made something of a meal of all that — top financier in shares scandal ; weapons mogul arms IRA ; that sort of thing . ’ |