Example sentences of "[n mass] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five percent of the respondents would have found it very easy to attend , 61% would have found it fairly easy , while only 14% would have found it difficult to attend . |
| 2 | The aircraft would have crossed this jet stream at a shallow angle which would have resulted in considerably reduced ground speed . |
| 3 | He added that to be accurate , the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire . |
| 4 | Great care had to be taken to hide this tell-tale clay , since its detection by aircraft would have betrayed the mines ' position and depth . |
| 5 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 6 | He is convinced , though , that the water vole would have withstood the pressures on it brought about by the mink had the vole 's habitat been less degraded . |
| 7 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 8 | Coronary patency was also measured in the HART study at 1 week , when the low dose of aspirin would have achieved full effect ; the patency rates in initially patent vessels were 88% in the heparin group and 95% in the aspirin group . |
| 9 | The folk would have understood . |
| 10 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 11 | Certain that none of the men on the Flounder would have survived , she named each of them . |
| 12 | By eating the herbs , the fish would have taken on a slight herby flavour themselves . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly British official statistics would have advanced more rapidly , particularly in the use of sampling techniques , if Bowley had had more to do with them . " |
| 14 | This would have been very difficult , because the site is on a low hill and some means would have had to be found for overcoming the unfavourable gradients ; a siphon effect has been suggested , but that would have involved making the whole length of piping airtight , which seems scarcely credible . |
| 15 | The problems of physical shortages and the volume of highly liquid financial assets accumulated during the war ( high incomes during the war period , with few goods and services to be bought , led to high savings ) probably meant that attempts to regulate the economy by monetary means would have failed . |
| 16 | And I guess you must have lost erm some of those people would 've gone to N S A especially with their new security product . |
| 17 | ‘ People would have said , what 's a telephone ? |
| 18 | People would have said , what 's a telephone ? |
| 19 | Most people would have said , ‘ I have been filming with Johnny Mills . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I suppose if we had won 4–0 , people would have said Villa had an off-day . |
| 21 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 22 | They made a good pair , people would have said who saw them . |
| 23 | Energy audits showed that in winter , people would have to spend £60 per week to achieve the recommended healthy heat levels and to avoid the risk of condensation dampness . |
| 24 | Analysis of these projects suggested that if such control were to be achieved , local people would have to acquire the motivation and skills to be able to organize themselves into effective action groups able to negotiate with public authorities . |
| 25 | No member of the races of the True People would have involved himself in a plan which necessitated the transportation of a mutant into Kinsai . |
| 26 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 27 | Without her care , friendship and encouragement a lot of people would have given up . |
| 28 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 29 | All my programmes would have been working and people would have seen what I was trying to do . " |
| 30 | The alternative would be to ensure that top civil service posts were held by political supporters of the government : such people would have to lose their jobs if ministers lost office . |