Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [adv] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 2 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 3 | Mummy would never have understood like you have . ’ |
| 4 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 5 | Fenna would never have forgiven her . |
| 6 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 7 | Otherwise your trainer would n't have entered them . |
| 8 | The episode would never have become more than a statistic in a communique , but for the nationality of the victorious pilot ; Caporal Kiffin Rockwell of Asheville , North Carolina . |
| 9 | Bonanza would n't have gone to all that trouble to set up a deal like you 're imagining . ’ , |
| 10 | Zbo would probably have dated them 1919 , when Modigliani 's prices were beginning to rise . |
| 11 | Thank goodness my vote would not have made any difference . |
| 12 | In Britain , such a vote would not have given the fascists power . |
| 13 | That is , if the pupil had not braked , then if the instructor had n't , the car would n't have stopped . |
| 14 | Damn , wish that car would n't have started |
| 15 | Cleverly he arranged it at night when there were no cars parked in Clifton Street , otherwise the swing of the 50-feet car would surely have reached them ! |
| 16 | The Fontainebleau abatement would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 17 | Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ? |
| 18 | His mind would likely have blown a fuse at the Jon Kessler show , at Luhring-Augustine until the 25th . |
| 19 | His mind would gleefully have converted the money into his own units of currency — large whiskies and five-pound yankees . |
| 20 | ( Moorcroft would also have had to prepare public and student lectures . ) |
| 21 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 22 | They 'd cut slightly beyond what had been allowed but the report afterwards said the roof would still have come down . |
| 23 | A stranger would n't have known about this place . |
| 24 | A repetition is justified under the principle of relevance because the hearer would not have recovered the extra contextual effects without it . |
| 25 | With the latter recruitment , Detroit became a city of largely black population ; the automobile industry would not have survived had it had to rely on the sons and daughters of its original workers . |
| 26 | The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined : even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment , even if managements had been more competent and imaginative , the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class . |
| 27 | Monod , by his collaboration with Coque , at least left a name in the automotive industry , but who today ever gives a thought to Le Chassis , without whose basic contribution to the theory of tetracyclic separation that industry would never have got off the ground ? |
| 28 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 29 | Nenna would never have dreamed before this of asking them to look after the girls . |
| 30 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |