Example sentences of "would have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be anticipated that the college would have seen the creation of a continuous stream of books and papers generated by the rich source of material which pours through its gates , but this has hardly been the case . |
| 2 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 3 | If London had been given time to study these , it would have seen that Smurfit is looking well placed in a world market notoriously prone to cyclical demand . |
| 4 | Until yesterday , these would have seen Barnes deployed on one flank with Rocastle 's defensive awareness earning him a ninth cap at Waddle 's expense on the other . |
| 5 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 6 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 7 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 8 | Their notions of the family as an inseparable unit would have seen to that . |
| 9 | Perhaps others , more forceful , would not have been so diffident : it is easy to imagine that Abdulnabi al-Hatash would have seen It as his duty to browbeat some sense into his juniors . |
| 10 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 11 | From her point of view , wealthier and more powerful was probably synonymous with easier and more rewarding , though it is questionable whether those who actually had to rule early modern France would have seen it in quite these terms . |
| 12 | After he had shown you all he had in him , you would have seen nothing that was not gentlemanly , honest and clean . ’ |
| 13 | The mechanics of the succession would have seen the convening of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile , the Palestine National Council . |
| 14 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 15 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 16 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 17 | All that we saw on that Thursday night was O going home on his own once more ; though if we had watched closely we would have seen that he simply left his stool and did not say Goodnight , Mother . |
| 18 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 19 | Following it up with a barbaric dose of guitar pop like ‘ Kennedy ’ would have seen off any new-found ‘ fans ’ and old faithfuls would have welcomed back their indie darlings at the drop of a balalaika . |
| 20 | Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack . |
| 21 | Had he looked further back he would have seen the referee waving play on , having overruled the linesman . |
| 22 | I wonder what I would have seen . |
| 23 | Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries . |
| 24 | Walk across the terrace from the Birthplace Museum to the Conservatory , which you will find packed with many of the tropical plants which Cook and his botanist , Sir Joseph Banks would have seen on their voyages . |
| 25 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 26 | I thought you would have seen the newspapers . |
| 27 | The one reduces theology to the Christian 's ‘ way of looking at things ’ , makes evangelism just an open-ended dialogue and articulates faith in a way which previous generations would have seen as a denial of the faith , in need of an answer itself . |
| 28 | ‘ Else I 'm sure I would have seen you around . |
| 29 | If Charles had bothered to watch his wife 's stunning performance , he would have seen France 's top statesmen fawn in her presence . |
| 30 | A better jury — and certainly a less star-struck one — would have seen it . |