Example sentences of "[adj] would have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 2 | This would have plummeted to single figures but for the influx of wealthy Iraqi ‘ refugee holidaymakers ’ now fleeing Saddam Hussein 's regime . |
| 3 | A couple of years ago this would have sounded like fiction ; soon it may be fact . |
| 4 | This would have led to science becoming a babel ; but it shows the widespread fear among chemists that their science would be ‘ reduced ’ to something else by armchair theorists who did not know how to hold test-tubes or blow glass T-pieces . |
| 5 | This would have led to specialisation , staleness , and a situation where an officer would lose touch in a world of changing regulations . |
| 6 | This would have led to well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , as we observe . |
| 7 | [ This would have led to difficulties in checking citations to related papers in the present study ] . |
| 8 | This would have conflicted with Haile Selassie 's intention of curtailing the power of the feudal Rases and centralizing the administration . |
| 9 | If we 'd needed the final touch of homicidal brio , this would have had to be it . |
| 10 | All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life . |
| 11 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 12 | I doubt that anything like this would have happened in the Revie days , that was a time that Leeds were truly considered champions and it was Leeds that would be doing the ‘ poaching ’ of players as such . |
| 13 | The latter is certainly played with great energy although even such a generally obvious piece such as this would have benefitted from heightened sensitivity : Gershwin was , after all , influenced not just by the vibrant colours of the tropics but by their warmth as well . |
| 14 | This would have come under the jurisdiction of the provincial procurator one of whose assistants restored its headquarters building , and not that of the regionarius . |
| 15 | This would have resulted in a much more enjoyable time for everyone . |
| 16 | On almost any basis of cost allocation , this would have resulted in the wrong product costs and a wrong emphasis on product mix ( long-term , not just short-term ) . |
| 17 | This would have resulted in more radioactive material being released . |
| 18 | Doubtless the British would have muddled through somehow without the loan . |
| 19 | If there had been , then something exceptionally unpleasant would have happened to every single member of this class . |
| 20 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 21 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 22 | Any age between thirty and forty would have stuck to him equally well . |
| 23 | Once again the Party was preparing for armed struggle and the stunning German victory of 1940 would have appeared to many Vietnamese to be ‘ the moment of great opportunity ’ . |
| 24 | These would have evolved in such a way that the displayer would have appeared bigger and more frightening . |
| 25 | It 's thought that a lot of the spending money for these would have come from redundancy payments when people lost their jobs . |
| 26 | The strings available to Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran in the mid-'50s would have ranged from medium ( .011-.52 or more ) to heavy ( .013-.60 ) gauge and would have included a wound third . |
| 27 | But I grant you there are not many would have gone to the trouble . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's not many would have stayed in one piece like that . |
| 29 | Professor Anthony Kay describes a case in which the council avoided investigating what many would have expected to be the central issue — was the accused doctor offering a treatment that could undoubtedly do harm but for which there was no scientific evidence of benefit ? |
| 30 | Seven or eight had died in hospital , yes , and some of those would have lingered for a day or two ; fair enough or even blond genug , as the Army usually put it . |