Example sentences of "[adv] would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do so would have entailed considerable embarrassment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I personally would have prefered two millimetres , the full width of tread and full circumference . |
| 4 | I personally would have preferred that decision to already have been taken . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 7 | Longer preparation generally would have improved this very interesting talk . |
| 8 | A : I suppose we could have one news bulletin a month , by which time what was important and what was not would have become apparent . |
| 9 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 10 | If there had been a loose lamp-post in sight I probably would have grabbed that . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Strikers thrive on confidence and if Campbell had scored when he was clean through , he probably would have grown another six inches . |
| 12 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 13 | But I think we could of gone down to British Home Stores , but we both probably would have spent more , than , |
| 14 | It may be so , but diplomatic calculation also would have persuaded both of them that it was better if Alice did not marry an Angevin . |
| 15 | The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline . |
| 16 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 17 | On Arthur Young 's calculation higher wages did not restore living standards to the levels of the 1780s , for weekly earnings then would have bought fourteen loaves in Winchester , whereas in 1815 they could buy only nine . |
| 18 | The draft had proposed what was a departure from the Luxembourg proposals of June 1991 in that , amongst many other matters , it firstly would have placed foreign , security and judicial matters within the single framework of the European Community decision making process , together with , secondly , vastly greater powers for the European Parliament . |
| 19 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 20 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 21 | It seems likely that in every case , perhaps after much agonizing , they succumbed to the decision to ban News International publications : to do otherwise would have risked contractual misconduct , strong moral and political pressure from both colleagues and employers , and ultimately , probably , dismissal . |
| 22 | It was flat , and having been open for only fifteen years , was not criss-crossed with sewers , gas and water pipes which otherwise would have required costly re-location . |
| 23 | Who else would have done those things for the NME — hanging out in Dingle Bay with Mike Scott and an accordion-bashing cow farmer , taking in the transvestite clubs with Fabulous , and singing ‘ Would You Take It In Your Mouth , Mrs Murphy ? ’ atop a hotel table in Moscow . |
| 24 | The keyword was fusion ; nothing else would have created such expectations . |