Example sentences of "that would have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President and most Republican legislators favoured a version that would have limited the extra benefits to no more than 20 weeks , and objected to the qualification changes . |
| 2 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 3 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 4 | She went , with a glare at Luke Denner that would have turned a lesser man to stone . |
| 5 | Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach . |
| 6 | Somehow containing her fury , she flashed him a smile that would have made a lesser man shrivel . |
| 7 | Luke Calder sat down on the settee , pulling Fran down next to him as he favoured her with a smile that would have made a lesser woman fall in a grateful little heap at his feet . |
| 8 | Emitting a stink that would have made a Tyryttiaki swamp mist seem fragrant . |
| 9 | Only then did the American boy notice his extraordinarily long curling fingernails , the mark of a high-ranking courtier that would have made a Western-style handshake awkward and discomfiting for both parties . |
| 10 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 11 | The second problem that would have troubled the faithful at the death of the last apostle was this . |
| 12 | Two of America 's biggest banks , Security Pacific and Wells Fargo , admitted that they discussed a possible merger last year , a move that would have produced the second-largest bank in America . |
| 13 | ‘ When he discovered you 'd disappeared , he went storming off half cocked and in a filthy rage that would have rocked the very mountains . |
| 14 | A NEW YORK federal appeals court has overturned a key decision that would have allowed an former Belfast IRA man to remain in the United States . |
| 15 | Graham Taylor 's battling heroes could not quite hold on for a win that would have allowed the beleaguered England manager to say ‘ Nuts ’ to his critics . |
| 16 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 17 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 18 | I would n't call those highly inventive moves mere dancing ; they bordered on an act that would have had the best strip-tease artists in the country seething with jealousy . |
| 19 | And , after two weeks that would have cracked a lesser man , Taylor proved he still has what it takes to ensure that England can qualify to be one of the outside contenders . |
| 20 | I think the record , it 's available in the archives , historians who are honest and hardworking could even then have come up with erm answers that would have incriminated the German leaders of nineteen-fourteen , and therefore moved German society , I believe , substantially towards the democratic centre , if not the Social Democratic Left . |
| 21 | In the name of these principles the Cortes produced on paper ( for neither the constitution nor its legislative consequences were ever effective ) a Spain that would have delighted the monarchical bureaucrats : a clumsy taxational system , with endless provincial divergencies , was to be replaced by a uniform income tax ; the machinery of the ancien régime with its characteristic confusion of administrative and judicial function was dismantled . |