Example sentences of "[adj] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A one-time regular denizen of city theatres and radio broadcast suites , one might argue that only an ex-Goon would have chosen to live along Dumb Woman 's Lane in a small hamlet near Rye in West Sussex . |
| 2 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 3 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 4 | The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying . |
| 5 | This would have plummeted to single figures but for the influx of wealthy Iraqi ‘ refugee holidaymakers ’ now fleeing Saddam Hussein 's regime . |
| 6 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 7 | Japan had few reserves to continue the struggle , though to have admitted this would have courted political disaster . |
| 8 | He had a supply with him when he was captured , but this would have run out by then . |
| 9 | She had clearly by various decree created a force majeure over mineral workings and whilst at the time this would have appeared an admirable standing , nevertheless the monopoly began to serve , in later years , as a disincentive to exploration and development . |
| 10 | This would have to carry the 3.0 m ewes which the Meat and Livestock Commission consider would be needed to provide the present contribution , 50% of national lamb production , from upland and hill ewes as well as the 800,000 or so cows receiving subsidy . |
| 11 | You 'd think this would have prepared me . |
| 12 | Among other things , this would have engendered the tradition of Herod 's Massacre of the Innocents . |
| 13 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 14 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 15 | This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies . |
| 16 | It is thought that this would have increased the flow of heat to the base of the lithosphere sufficiently to cause a phase change in the uppermost continental mantle after a delay of up to 70 Ma ( the time taken for heat to be conducted from the base of the lithosphere to just below the Moho ) . |
| 17 | He could have written them by hand but this would have defeated their objective . |
| 18 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 19 | ( Little of all this would have reached the public but for two courageous soldier-MPs , Col. Josiah Wedgwood and Maj. Victor Cazalet ) . |
| 20 | This , this is er , inch and half too short or else this would have done the |
| 21 | A couple of years ago this would have sounded like fiction ; soon it may be fact . |
| 22 | This would have involved giving the criterion of gender identity precedence over physiological criteria . |
| 23 | Some such process may have been originally responsible for the separation of England and France by the formation of the Straits of Dover , although this would have involved the breaching of a much broader barrier than the Purbeck-Isle of Wight ridge . |
| 24 | After recording a verdict of accidental death coroner Nicholas Gardiner said it was known that the seats should have been rear facing but he did n't think this would have affected the outcome . |
| 25 | This would have remained the impression if Scriven had not been followed by Dr David Fowler of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ( ITE ) . |
| 26 | This would have led to science becoming a babel ; but it shows the widespread fear among chemists that their science would be ‘ reduced ’ to something else by armchair theorists who did not know how to hold test-tubes or blow glass T-pieces . |
| 27 | This would have led to specialisation , staleness , and a situation where an officer would lose touch in a world of changing regulations . |
| 28 | This would have led to well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , as we observe . |
| 29 | [ This would have led to difficulties in checking citations to related papers in the present study ] . |
| 30 | This would have conflicted with Haile Selassie 's intention of curtailing the power of the feudal Rases and centralizing the administration . |