Example sentences of "[adj] would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying . |
| 2 | Japan had few reserves to continue the struggle , though to have admitted this would have courted political disaster . |
| 3 | This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies . |
| 4 | With the already established public accounts committee , this would have given four such bodies , each with a salaried chairman , and the Catholics were to be given two of the chairs with the committees being made up to reflect parliamentary seats . |
| 5 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 6 | Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples . |
| 7 | By changing the adjective discreet into an adverb , this would have lost some of the force of the original , which attributes the behavioural quality of discretion metonymically to the door , an inanimate object which can not , in literal actuality , possess it . |
| 8 | This would have commanded high interest rates but these might , on precedent , have been subsequently lowered . |
| 9 | This would have brought more people out into the corridors and foyers . |
| 10 | This would have avoided all discussion of the succession . |
| 11 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 12 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 13 | This would have encouraged chemical interaction between the gases of the Earth 's early atmosphere to form organic molecules — although , to be sure , it would also have tended to break those molecules apart once they had formed ! |
| 14 | This would have preempted any Russian protest . |
| 15 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 16 | A few months ago even , this would have seemed improbable . |
| 17 | Lubin comments that ‘ Shyness probably made concrete political action impossible , for this would have required direct action with other people . |
| 18 | This would have left many people with worthless claims against insolvent companies . |
| 19 | This would have left visuo-spatial functions intact in the right whereas in women language could have become established in both hemispheres , crowding most specialised visuo-spatial ability . |
| 20 | If , for instance , in 1.3.1 we had defined a to be a divisor of b if b = ac this would have left open the question of whether or not we are to call a divisor of b if no such c existed . |
| 21 | Even this would have demanded more water than could be afforded . |
| 22 | Why the French would have had 50 books , folios & sets published by this time . |
| 23 | a reasonable profit but some would have made more than others . |
| 24 | They found that only about half would have voted Labour if they had been registered . |
| 25 | Richard III would have had some sympathy for the frustrations of the Afghan guerrillas in their fight for Jalalabad . |
| 26 | This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial . |
| 27 | Re-entry into the labour force after child-rearing was less usual for the older group than for the younger ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) and therefore fewer would have had pensionable paid employment in the years before retirement . |
| 28 | ‘ Being sick would have speeded that up , of course , as well as your inelegant fall from the fountain . ’ |
| 29 | No Lutheran would have said that . |
| 30 | Perceptions such as these would have affected general conduct and attitude . |