Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [num] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 2 | Indeed , in its evidence to the Kilbrandon commisson , my party accepted that if its then proposals had been accepted by the commission , the case for a reduction in Scottish Members to , say , 58 or 59 would have been hard to resist . |
| 3 | No no no no there was nobody , now er probably up at the top of Gallway there though one or two would have er stables I should think , one or two of those houses , but by and large no I should n't think so . |
| 4 | It will frustrate the cussedness of the officials who , this year , closed down the passenger lifts on the stroke of 4 o'clock — exactly the moment at which many people on Levels 1 and 2 would have wished to use them as they carried packages down to the exit . |
| 5 | You may remember that Cliff wore a thumb pick and two National finger picks , hence the octaves section in bars 9 and 10 would have been easier for him to pick cleanly than if he 'd used a flat pick and no fingerstyle . |
| 6 | Any age between thirty and forty would have stuck to him equally well . |
| 7 | The virtual particle/antiparticle pairs of spin 1/2 and 3/2 would have negative energy , and so would tend to cancel out the positive energy of the spin 2 , 1 , and 0 virtual pairs . |