Example sentences of "[det] [conj] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 2 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 3 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 4 | It 's hard hard to say how much that would have helped the situation out there I mean it definitely would have helped in some degree , but I mean there was still all the oil that was present on the platform in the separators except those which were left under pressure all that would have had to burn . |
| 5 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 6 | On this issue , Hwang and Mai ( 1988 ) have shown that if the home firm 's conjectures were more ( less ) competitive than Cournot , the effect of the quota is to raise ( lower ) domestic prices relative to those that would have prevailed in the presence of tariffs . |