Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled for a long moment into the raging eyes that would have struck him dead if they could . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Cooke said that if a receiver failed to terminate a receivership although he had funds that would have achieved just that , then he should be treated as if his authority had ceased . |
| 3 | ‘ Developing countries are afraid funds for combating climate change will come out of funds that would have gone for development aid , ’ says Reddy . |
| 4 | The budget cutbacks eliminated funds that would have gone to reinstallation , maintenance , and security . |
| 5 | ‘ He wrecked your act with a few well-chosen words that would have slid straight off your back if anyone else had said them . |
| 6 | But what comes across from the letters is an overwhelming ignorance about female physiology and sexuality , the difficulty of gaining access to information , and a lack of privacy in their homes that would have rendered the use of female methods of birth control extremely difficult . |
| 7 | The banks themselves are under stress , and so are the public institutions that would have to deal with any banking breakdown . |
| 8 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 9 | ‘ The subpoenas that would have shed light have been blocked . |
| 10 | There are other planets that would have served just as well , I imagine , in Spinward 's schemes . |
| 11 | Friends of the Earth accused the government of " caving in to pressure from property developers and abandoning proposals that would have protected the public from accidentally buying contaminated land " . |
| 12 | Though a topic for voluble discourse , it was less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it . |
| 13 | Even FD Roosevelt , he reminds us , had to tell lies about his fiscal intentions in order to get elected ( it is a pity the Labour Party did not see the proofs of this book ) ; and the famous fiscal deficit of the US , ‘ though a topic of voluble discourse ’ , was ‘ less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it ’ . |
| 14 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |
| 15 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 16 | But they were mysteries that would have to wait . |
| 17 | Certainly , these are different physical circumstances than would have confronted the Renaissance theatre-goer , but more notably the film 's scenic panorama provokes a staggeringly glaring comparison with the perspectives offered by a blitzed London outside the cinema . |
| 18 | Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up . |
| 19 | Recordings were put out by small companies and would have limited sales compared to popular , commercial discs . |
| 20 | Harley O. Staggers , a Democratic member of the House for West Virginia , initiating a bill proposing a point-of-sale background check which , whilst on the face of it more stringent than the Brady bill , was full of loopholes and would have taken years to implement . |
| 21 | A repetition of that episode would not , I felt , have been seemly in the circumstances and would have reduced me , for one , into a fit of nervous giggles . |
| 22 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
| 23 | At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down . |
| 24 | His summing-up left the jury in no doubt about his own views and would have required a jury of quite exceptional perversity to have brought in a guilty verdict . |
| 25 | An inner northern route would have been about twice as successful in relieving traffic on existing roads and would have produced fifty five percent more economic benefits . |
| 26 | Various accounting bodies and organisations criticised the Charity Commissioners ' draft revised statement of recommended practice on accounting by charities , SORP2 , for being too complex for the many small charities that would have to comply with it . |
| 27 | And , after two weeks that would have cracked a lesser man , Taylor proved he still has what it takes to ensure that England can qualify to be one of the outside contenders . |
| 28 | When those who had difficulty considered subsequent questions on training many were able to identify alternatives that would have allowed them to attend . |
| 29 | ( Here , however , tables and appendixes that would have listed , for instance , manned space trips are strangely missing . ) |
| 30 | The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet . |