Example sentences of "[noun] would have do " in BNC.

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1 Lorraine Monk , of Kingston-upon-Thames , said Labour would have to do far more than merely reverse NHS cuts .
2 He never had the substance for a leader and Labour would have done much better with Denis Healey .
3 A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay .
4 If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then .
5 Such statements are in fact usually false , either because the combination of a and b is not a necessary condition of p , so that even if X had not done b , p might still have occurred , or because , even if X had n't done b , some other agent would have done it instead , thereby bringing about p .
6 Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well .
7 But when Jasmine was born they put Joan in a room by herself at the hospital so she could n't see other fathers cuddling their first-born as Bobby would have done .
8 It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory .
9 Is that what such a force would have done , acting at the behest of the Council of Ministers ?
10 Portia 'd have done much better with that suitor who talked about his horse all the time .
11 He asks what the minimum necessary physical conditions are , what is the minimum amount of design work that a very lazy Creator would have to do , in order to see to it that the universe and , later , elephants and other complex things , would one day come into existence .
12 The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings .
13 You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ?
14 For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets .
15 Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material .
16 Ten grams would have to do .
17 After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same .
18 ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’
19 Supporters had been split into regional groups throughout the country , and John and Joan Bohanna 's Merseyside Regional Group directly confronted Pilger , telling him that ‘ ultimate NoS editorial control rests not with the editor , or the Board of Directors , but the Founders ’ , and the editor would have to do their bidding at all times .
20 Nails would have to do it , for his own skin as well as his , Hoomey 's .
21 Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops .
22 I said , ‘ No English boy would have done that . ’
23 I hold no strong views myself , but I do wonder what the lady would have done had the man produced from his bowler hat a valid membership card .
24 Th the will be other new schemes that were , not yet come forward , because the local media have not , erm , addressed a particular area , but as soon as it does in March or April , then the town conservatives would have done that next year .
25 Actually , it felt no more of a wasted morning than wandering round the Guggenheim would have done , and I still managed an afternoon 's lingerie shopping .
26 Any county wicket-keeper would have done the job — but Stewart , unbelievably , completely missed the bails .
27 He gave as the ground for his refusal Matadial 's acceptance that her statement to the police was incorrect , but Mr. Pantry did not oppose the application and their Lordships consider that the judge would have done better to read the statement before giving his ruling .
28 She filled her place , she fetched and carried for him , but any tame girl would have done as well .
29 ‘ That 's not a thing a normal Egyptian girl would have done .
30 ‘ You expected me to drop my life and my career for you because that 's what a Majorcan girl would have done . ’
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