Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle did do well , but was n't quite as dynamic as Strach — he 'd do some very pretty stuff every now and then , but occasionally hold back a bit where Strach would have gone headlong into attack . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 4 | His dress was too rich for his usual strenuous hunting , nor were there hounds abroad , or Iorwerth would have known and signalled it long ago . |
| 5 | In order to keep the sorted list , the school librarian or teacher would have to ask the computer to save it on disk i.e. copy it on to the floppy disk . |
| 6 | purists may have an essential moral objection that this approach is false — what Ruskin or Morris would have called a lie . |
| 7 | Without the work at Peoria and in many American industrial laboratories , many more months or years would have passed before penicillin became readily available . |
| 8 | Brooking , Devonshire or Dickens would have rendered useless Leeds 's tedious offside trap by the simple expedient of running through from deep with the ball . |
| 9 | Such a distinction was perhaps the greatest novelty imported into the world of classical antiquity by Christianity : no Greek or Roman would have tried to disentangle sacred from profane in his ceremonials , or even have understood the distinction . |
| 10 | The true owner or owners would have to reveal themselves by going to court to have it removed . |
| 11 | The move is that which Aristotle or Kant would have made if they had promoted all outsiders ( such as women and non-European peoples ) to the status of honorary Athenian or Prussian men . |
| 12 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 13 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 14 | The Great Chain of Being has here become a matter of moral variety rather than biological species variety , but it is quite plain where Locke would have wanted to place himself . |
| 15 | Perhaps Cantona & Wallace would have worked , but Cantona was n't tough enough to be the front man , as scum found out in Turkey ( ha , ha ) , I 'm sure if Hughes had played instead they would still be in the EC . |
| 16 | ( Of course your weight would n't change , so neither could the amount of displaced water ; an arm or leg would have to stick up instead . ) |
| 17 | What , after all , could be wrong with providing at least some good schools in the inner cities , to which parents would be committed and where pupils would have to keep their heads down and work , on pain of being thrown out ? |
| 18 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 19 | What other group or profession would have gathered in the Royal Mile ? |
| 20 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 21 | Where others would have dismissed the idea as impractical , Sherwood set about locating those vehicles which had survived intact . |
| 22 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 23 | Yet I 'm in no doubt at all that Ian would have provided the most engrossing portrait of all . |
| 24 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |
| 25 | I mean who would have thought that Tranmere would have lost four nil ? |
| 26 | ‘ Many statutes are passed by political bargaining and snap judgments of expediency ; the courts can rarely be sure that Parliament would have altered the wording if it had foreseen the situation . ’ |
| 27 | Later it become known that Stewart would have preferred as fullback Bob Barrell , a hefty man from Stewart 's area , Wanganui , who was a famed goal-kicker . |
| 28 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 29 | It is possible that Offa would have liked Ecgfrith to have been consecrated either by the pope or by the papal legates . |
| 30 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |