Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His last words would have made a fine song title . |
| 2 | He believes fans would have preferred a more lavish packaging for ‘ Bizarro ’ and that its fierce edge might have been a reaction to signing with RCA . |
| 3 | The latter half of the sixteenth century does , arguably , represent a significant turning point in the development of the hierarchy : until that time one can argue that its evolution had been largely functional , that the nature of the hierarchy ensured that those who reached the highest learned offices would have received a thorough grounding in the necessary sciences through both their education and their teaching , and practical training in the application of the law through holding several important kadiliks ; but that after that time , that is , from toward the end of the sixteenth century , the elaboration of the hierarchy was much more negative from the point of view both of learning and of good administration , being essentially an attempt to provide jobs and honours for an ever-increasing number of those seeking both . |
| 4 | — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) . |
| 5 | After Alan Duff , very few teachers ' books would have stood a chance . ’ |
| 6 | And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps . |
| 7 | Surely , if the French incursion was serious , the Prussians would have sent a more urgent messenger ? |
| 8 | The pressure on the welders would have involved a very high rejection rate — a problem overcome by robot welding . |
| 9 | Some referees would have produced a red card instantly , but Alan Flood decided that the challenge only merited a yellow . |
| 10 | A significant number of subjects ( 7/37 ) , however , had food reflux that was outside one standard deviation from the mean , whereas only one of these subjects would have had a positive reflux score by measuring acid alone . |
| 11 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 12 | Instead of a free subscription to an obscure journal ( which came with the registration fee ) many listeners would have preferred a decent abstract list — not to mention fewer unimaginative and time-worn presentations . |
| 13 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
| 14 | Sensible parents would have chosen a hill station near us , rented a house , and sent us every year to the same school . |
| 15 | A joining of the two companies would have created a huge holiday company with about 30pc of the UK market . |
| 16 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition , said that the companies would have acquired a 50 per cent share of the world market for commuter aircraft of 20-70 seats and 67 per cent of the EC market . |
| 17 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 18 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 19 | The bride was an attractive and lively young woman who under normal circumstances would have made a sympathetic wife for an energetic and ambitious young man . |
| 20 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 21 | A slash from Siban 's talons would have inflicted a wound which would have taken weeks to heal . |
| 22 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
| 23 | And yet , I 'm quite sure that as they got nearer and nearer to Bethlehem their feelings would have changed a little bit . |
| 24 | Mowbray was suspended for the final game when victory against Hibs would have guaranteed a passport into Europe . |
| 25 | The London stockbrokers County Natwest Wood Mackenzie reported on Dec. 21 their calculation that the only major stock market in which a sterling investor would have realized an average gain during 1990 would have been Mexico , where booming market conditions would have produced a 53.2 per cent profit ; the UK , by comparison , would have produced a 7.7 per cent average loss , the West German market would have brought a 21.4 per cent loss , and the USA a 17.1 per cent loss . |
| 26 | You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned . |
| 27 | For instance , under a market valuation of exchange rates Tanzania 's coffee producers would have received a significantly higher farmgate price when expressed in local currency , and their capacity to save and invest would have been higher . |
| 28 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 29 | Although the UK figures would have shown a fall in income without the rapid increase in corporate recovery work ( up 31% to £40.1m ) , growth in the rest of Europe was stronger in the traditional areas of audit and business advisory services ( up 12% to £274m ) and tax consultancy ( up 8% to £93m ) . |
| 30 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |