Example sentences of "[adj] would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 2 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 3 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 4 | At the actual erm meeting which put this into practice the Conservatives suggested a phased in method , some now and some later , and this would have relieved a certain amount of hardship . |
| 5 | This would have meant a gain of one seat to SDLP . |
| 6 | Normally , this would have meant a day off work to attend a training session at a cost of at least £150 per head . |
| 7 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
| 8 | Then , while the vapour condensed into oceans the high percentage of CO 2 would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | If anything , the Sylvie of old would have preferred a noisy wake , frenetic dancing , a bacchic rite . |
| 10 | To have got it ready by December 29th would have meant a fearful rush . |
| 11 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
| 12 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
| 13 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 14 | Mrs Gotobed would have made a Will and Hepzibah and Mister Johnny would be safe in Druid 's Bottom for ever and ever … |
| 15 | A housing budget estimate for 1992/93 would have left a £643,000 deficit without an increase in rents . |
| 16 | The 5/ a week given in 1908 to those aged over seventy would have made a significant contribution to the pre-war family economy , but the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women 's Organisations and members of the Fabian Women 's Group felt that this should be weighed against the increased friction caused by an old person coming into an already overcrowded home , pointing out that elderly people 's ideas of hygiene and childrearing might not be desirable , an argument that appealed to the infant welfare movement . |
| 17 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 18 | Winning entente floral would have meant a big tourism boost for cheltenham — so what went wrong ? |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I suppose that would have irritated a Socialist Republican Feminist like you . ’ |
| 20 | George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours . |
| 21 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 22 | Any other old drunk would have got a corner on the fourth page . |
| 23 | A study with the power to chow clearly that a 5% yield difference was truely present or absent would have required a prohibitely high number of 2336 study subjects ( power 80% ) . |
| 24 | But most would have sent a holidaymaker scurrying for his siesta . |
| 25 | A consultant paediatrician said the bruising would have caused a degree of distress when inflicted but it would have been temporary . |