Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Barnsley 's first effort on target but was followed quickly by a second , a header from Andy Savile that would have won the match had Tommy Wright not produced a topdrawer reflex diving save . |
| 2 | He had read a file on Stepan and Ilya Holovich that would have come with a dust coat out of a Home Office basement reserved for the histories of Aliens ( Naturalized ) . |
| 3 | In the name of these principles the Cortes produced on paper ( for neither the constitution nor its legislative consequences were ever effective ) a Spain that would have delighted the monarchical bureaucrats : a clumsy taxational system , with endless provincial divergencies , was to be replaced by a uniform income tax ; the machinery of the ancien régime with its characteristic confusion of administrative and judicial function was dismantled . |
| 4 | ‘ We are developing liners for bins , which would have contained a bomb blast such as at Warrington and would have reduced injuries . ’ |
| 5 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
| 6 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 7 | For example then all of you do the inimitable NMTs and would 've lost a mark , the real thing is when you 've got a time clause stop , think and really focus on this meaning of the verb in the time clause , right ? |
| 8 | And here , with so many gangs living close together , more names were crossed out with an X. That would have meant more killing . |
| 9 | She went , with a glare at Luke Denner that would have turned a lesser man to stone . |
| 10 | They both looked exotic even standing by the Nile and would have seemed remarkably out of place among us . |
| 11 | Doctor Lovell , who knew both women slightly , suspected that she was brow-beaten by the dominating Ella and would have liked to try the effects of an iron tonic on Dimity 's languid pallor . |
| 12 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 13 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 14 | Gedge 's mother was pleased to see the band put our a tribute to Jones but would have preferred her son 's singing to be given a lot more prominence . |
| 15 | She rushed at Fagin and would have hit him if Sikes had not held her arms so tightly that she could n't move . |
| 16 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 17 | This penal arrangement came into effect from 2 June and would have cost the clearing banks about £150,000 per week as a result of the lost interest . |