Example sentences of "[adv] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much would have depended on the distances involved and on the modes of transport available as already mentioned above ( p. 44 ) . |
| 2 | Article 36 bis would have clarified the position both for the benefit of the third party with whom the organisation had entered an agreement , and for member States . |
| 3 | Marriott 's wife , Momo , was a celebrated hostess and a friend of Randolph Churchill , who naturally would have introduced his set of companions . |
| 4 | The blanket ban on the publishers not only would have led to virtually nothing being bought for the borough 's libraries , but it would have denied the borough those titles which do serve the fight against racism . |
| 5 | Confession only would have served . |
| 6 | To do so would have threatened the stability of Franco 's position and was , therefore , out of the question . |
| 7 | This could , of course , have been repealed , but to do so would have breached the general principle of free education , and the resulting expansion of charges would have risked a public outcry . |
| 8 | The incident had actually happened two years ago but to say so would have diluted the force of the tale . |
| 9 | To do so would have entailed considerable embarrassment . |
| 10 | They watched the progress of Polaris closely , but made no bid for it because to have done so would have loaded the Naval votes with its costs at the expense of the rest of the Fleet . |
| 11 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 12 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 13 | Government simply had to act ; not to do so would have amounted to avoiding a problem that was ‘ evident ’ and ‘ plain' to all , particularly those who watched the news on television ! |
| 14 | Failure to do so would have put at risk all future Kindertransporte and , though in the last weeks of the peace the temptation to stay on in Britain must have been great , the escorts always did their best to get back . |
| 15 | Oh , now doubt about that at all Peter yes , and with the sides equal on points , I 'm particularly disappointed for United who obviously would have liked to have climbed above Charlton in the table . |
| 16 | I personally would have prefered two millimetres , the full width of tread and full circumference . |
| 17 | I personally would have preferred that decision to already have been taken . |
| 18 | The long straight nose , thin lips and diffident , questioning expression of the eyes set rather close together would have looked as well on a girl . |
| 19 | It was held that a normal examination would have involved looking inside and that they could not complain of defects in the glue which an inspection inside would have revealed . |
| 20 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 21 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 22 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 23 | The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi . |
| 24 | That alone would have lasted a week and been enough to take in and remember . |
| 25 | According to estimates put out by the Reuters news agency , however , interest payments alone would have amounted to almost US$10,000 million for the year . |
| 26 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 27 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 28 | His achievements alone would have won admiration , but John Cranko had another quality besides . |
| 29 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |
| 30 | Even though that share seemed to fall over time , as claims were settled , the $170m insurers spent in such unproductive ways in 1989 alone would have paid for the treatment of 15 sites . |