Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was only about a minute of the game gone and I dare say er Ian whose place he 's taking on that left-hand side would have relished that kind of opportunity . |
| 2 | But the seats that Common Wealth began to win were often seats which Labour would have stood little chance of winning even under the most favourable conditions . |
| 3 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 4 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 5 | In 1094 however such a future would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 6 | More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land . |
| 7 | Old Den would have liked that . |
| 8 | Gurder would have understood this sort of thing . |
| 9 | The scholastics would have recognized some such distinction . |
| 10 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 11 | The blunder he survived at the 15th fence would have sent 99 men out of 100 into orbit . |
| 12 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 13 | Perhaps nomadic by choice , a typical shepherd would have had few possessions , would not own the flock , the pastures or a house . |
| 14 | The new rule would have allowed 85 per cent of the 365 permits issued for field tests and 724 sites to have gone forward under the simpler notification . |
| 15 | Since incorporation would have required parliamentary approval , and alignment not much less , the scheme was impractical , but it was typical of the man . |
| 16 | The instrument would have made several incisions at the same time , having a set of twelve razor-sharp curved blades that are retracted below the slotted surface of the base and , when in place on the skin , fired by a trigger-release mechanism . |
| 17 | Mr Tony Brighton , the TGWU 's representative at RAF Stafford , said : ‘ We can not say whether the presence of the RAF ambulance would have made any difference to saving a life , but there was delay . ’ |
| 18 | Thorough market research would have uncovered this . |
| 19 | They talked about Robert 's exhibition , and to an outsider the scene would have appeared normal : a group of friends in an English house on an English evening . |
| 20 | The proposal would have restricted nuclear weapons at sea to strategic missile submarines . |
| 21 | The agreement came only 10 hours before the deadline for the beginning of the new fiscal year , after which automatic spending cuts triggered by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law would have become operational . |
| 22 | A rigorist for ecclesiastical law would have found much to object to in this procedure . |
| 23 | No doubt in the summer , the area would be spotted with ardently rucksacked walkers , but it was now early November , and the recent rain and cold would have deterred all but the most perverse . |
| 24 | In the old days the subtle relationships which constituted the Establishment at work would have prevented any such developments taking place . |
| 25 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 26 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
| 27 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 28 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 29 | In years of high prices 20 per cent would have been in this situation , while in extremely hard years , such as 1801 , the proportion would have exceeded 40 per cent . |
| 30 | Went into the supermarket and it said and it said pour , not it said erm pour le animal , well any fool would have thought that was poor the animals , and Carol said that looks nice , we 'll , we 'll have a pile of that ! |