Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 2 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 3 | If it was merely a technical matter , personal computers would have meant increased autonomy for office workers just as Apple 's founders predicted . |
| 4 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 5 | One of the great advantages that we had in the ‘ twenties was comparatively safe and clear streets , parked cars would have stopped many of our games and I imagine that tops would not have been popular with car owners . |
| 6 | Just a couple of years ago these cars would have fetched three or four times that price . |
| 7 | Despite the small scale of production the craftsmen would have needed considerable knowledge and skill to accumulate the equipment and materials to produce these brooches . |
| 8 | By re-analysing a few examples of French social survey data it is hoped that the British statisticians will become more familiar with French methods and also learn whether British methods would have revealed more or less details , or whether the two types of statistical methods are complementary . |
| 9 | Another area of debate was the revocability or modification of rights conferred upon third parties ; if they could be revoked without the third party 's consent then they could not be truly considered rights ; if they could not , the treaty parties would have surrendered some of their autonomy . |
| 10 | There being 3,813 papers showing a second preference for Craig in our North Antrim constituency , the formula would have given him ( 5,626 + 14,533 ) x 3,813 = 1,476 additional votes , and other candidates would have received additional votes similarly calculated . |
| 11 | The Sheikha was completely veiled but , I knew her eyes would have turned black with distress . |
| 12 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |
| 13 | By the mid-sixties , you see , a large proportion of homes would have got fitted carpeting throughout , so there 's that kind of difference . |
| 14 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 15 | Although Carlson felt there was some connection with the chaos and anarchy erupting over the Althosian system he was sure none of the Freedom Party supporters would have devised such a ruthless method for annihilating the elite . |
| 16 | If that had been the case then the much softer shells would have disintegrated first . |
| 17 | Kids would have made more mess . |
| 18 | It is clear that , despite the clamour for his resignation , Mr Lamont is hoping to stay at the Treasury for longer than most pundits would have thought possible last year . |
| 19 | Endoscopic surveillance of treated and untreated asymptomatic ulcers has indicated that 75% persist unhealed over many months , and so it is unlikely that an endoscopy every four months would have missed many . |
| 20 | Angel 's parents would have taken poor lonely Tess to their hearts immediately , as they did every other lost soul , without thought of family or education or wealth . |
| 21 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 22 | So expectations have been high , and companies would have felt some concern about the possible consequences of crossing the panel . |
| 23 | Had such an option been granted to the Danes , other countries would have demanded similar privileges , and the dream of creating a unitary European state would have become unattainable . |
| 24 | The climate extremes suggested by the physical models would have rendered southern Africa inhospitable for both animal and plant life , yet fossils of the most diverse and prolific terrestrial vertebrates , the mammal-like reptiles dicynodonts , are found in South Africa , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi and Tanzania . |
| 25 | They say belts would have prevented any injuries in wales … |
| 26 | However , a few of the errors would have produced new macromolecules that were even better at reproducing themselves . |
| 27 | Th the will be other new schemes that were , not yet come forward , because the local media have not , erm , addressed a particular area , but as soon as it does in March or April , then the town conservatives would have done that next year . |
| 28 | But thanks to their 28 victories in the constituencies the Conservatives would have had nine seats ( 28 minus 19 ) too many , whilst from the pool of ten additional seats it would have been impossible to furnish both the nine additional seats due to Labour ( 11 minus two won in constituencies ) and the ten additional seats owing to the Liberals . |
| 29 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 30 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |