Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were not so , Paul 's words would have contradicted what Jesus teaches . |
| 2 | Pursuing legal action would have cost them money they did n't have ( unless it meant selling their house which was not an option ) but doing nothing left them with the feeling that justice was n't being done . |
| 3 | A casual glance would have made it seem that her expression was stiff with anger . |
| 4 | One glance would have told her that he was close to a heart attack . |
| 5 | But even without that gift from the political gods , Labour would have ended its conference in confident composure . |
| 6 | Some thought Labour would have had its ideal leader , a courageous genius in party management , and with a streak of inspiration in philosophy , if it could have bred from the two of them . |
| 7 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 8 | But Vadinamia 's spaceport city is a compact place , and any tails would have picked me up again soon enough . |
| 9 | ‘ Because , ’ Doctor Agrippa intervened , ‘ he probably thought that you or Shallot would have discovered something during your travels in Scotland and France to trap him . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't believe that the fans would have caused me any problem . |
| 11 | If we had lost or drawn the fans would have blamed me . ’ |
| 12 | Corbett would have packed his saddle bags immediately and left but Maeve was insistent he wait until the rain storm abated . |
| 13 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 14 | I have a strong presentiment that , had the opportunity arisen , Lord Mansfield would have seized it to establish the law in this form . |
| 15 | Unshielded , and with real blades , the stroke would have decapitated him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 18 | Fenna would have killed her . |
| 19 | However , the Court of Appeal gave the plaintiff his costs of the appeal because it was unlikely that the defendant would have allowed him to take out from the sum paid into court an amount equal to the increased amount the Court of Appeal eventually awarded him . |
| 20 | So , at the time , when it was published , most readers would have regarded it as completely up to date in its , in its style and in its presentation . |
| 21 | If the Germans had got this far , the British Goverment would have wanted it kept under wraps . |
| 22 | Another wicket now and Pakistan would have had their thumbs on the jugular . |
| 23 | Neither Elizabeth nor James , he said , had allowed the Duchy of Lancaster to be absorbed into the Exchequer , because the abolition of its offices would have deprived them of valuable rewards for their servants . |
| 24 | Surely , only another auction would have revealed it — or otherwise ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 28 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 29 | Had the Social Democrats won in East Germany , Mr Gorbachev would have gained himself a valuable ally . |
| 30 | They were n't used to the cheek-by-jowl contact it entailed ; the notion of living in the state of interdependence that bound Dora Lavender and Rose Kettle would have horrified them both . |