Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult . |
| 2 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 3 | Had she been alone with Luke , no doubt his words would have been spiked with malice . |
| 4 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 5 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 6 | Even though the reason for permitting the employees to continue work pending the appeals may have been born out of a sense of leniency , the proper course of action would have been to suspend the employees pending the hearing of the appeals . |
| 7 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 8 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |
| 9 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 10 | The effect of the drag reduction kit modifications on the aircraft 's pre- and post-stall behaviour could not be documented precisely but it is unlikely that their effect on the stall speed and characteristics would have been significant . |
| 11 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |
| 12 | In any case , the road from Chester to Caerleon was an important strategic line and always partly , if not wholly , under military control ; and if it was fortified , Whitchurch would have been included , and there is no evidence as yet of civil defences there . |
| 13 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 14 | The square piano , mentioned above , signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ was probably made by Johann Gottfried , so Stein would have been in Strasbourg when this instrument with the German action but no escapement was finished . |
| 15 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 16 | Had the mill not been built , acting as it was , a barrier across the tidal tributary , the idyllic scene on the other side would have been vastly different . |
| 17 | Bay did thrash Connah 's Quay 7-0 in last season 's Welsh Cup , and also hammered Briton Ferry , and Bryn Jones agrees his side would have been title contenders . |
| 18 | But the property at Déville would have been sold anyway . |
| 19 | Headmasters were always members of the council , in those days , and they were always tended to be La Liberal or Labour , which I the present Labour would say was very pale pink . |
| 20 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 21 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 22 | In the 1960s £2-£3 would have been enough . |
| 23 | Soon , he 'd accept Lachlan as a better heir than Hector would have been , and all would be well again . |
| 24 | Mr. Fairfax would have been a most difficult customer in all senses of the word . |
| 25 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 26 | Such lists would have been regarded as underground literature during Sir Keith Joseph 's tenure . |
| 27 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 28 | For example , the need for some modifications became apparent ; the rephrasing of some questions and a refocusing of emphasis towards texts used in Secondary schools would have been helpful . |
| 29 | The mechanisms of control and the latitude which such schools would have are still unclear and are being studied by the Ministry of Education . |
| 30 | Such chemical signals would have been the forerunner of modern-day hormones . |