Example sentences of "[that] it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her original wish to run two candidates in at least one-third of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies was abandoned on the grounds that it would have split the socialist vote in many areas . |
| 2 | There is no evidence to suggest that it would have developed more closely along Western lines . |
| 3 | ‘ No doubt that it would have killed Nick Stone , though ? ’ |
| 4 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |
| 5 | Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had . |
| 6 | If he 'd broken her arm , she doubted that it would have altered his tone or his attitude in any way . |
| 7 | He wanted to get away somewhere and think in peace , but experience had taught him that it would have achieved nothing because he was incapable of sustained logical thought . |
| 8 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 9 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 10 | And she had no intention of telling him just what she did think of him , not that it would have made sense , anyway — either to him or , more importantly , to herself . |
| 11 | Not that it would have made any difference because I mean , people used to go into shops on that side , which never came up our way and the same with us , coming up there and not going that way is n't it . |
| 12 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 13 | King did not jump , not that it would have made any difference if he had . |
| 14 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 15 | The White House , critics argue , failed to follow up the bomb theory because of the risk that it would have posed to negotiations with Iran for the release of US hostages in Lebanon . |
| 16 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 17 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 18 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |
| 19 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 20 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 21 | Not that it would have done the slightest bit of good . |
| 22 | She remembered how huge she had thought the Longhills ' kitchen on her arrival in Nordale , and reckoned that it would have fitted into a corner of this one . |
| 23 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 24 | The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft . |
| 25 | However , the directions that it would have predicted are exactly the opposite of the ones actually observed in this study . |
| 26 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |
| 27 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 28 | It is understood that a key factor in the failure of the Channel 4-IMG bid was that it would have required games to be played at certain times , a condition which was unacceptable to the players and FIDE . |
| 29 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 30 | But you know it 's funny how why it was so I mean the grit and those were quite sharp you know You you 'd have thought that it would have taken your skin but then it was ideal stuff for getting the grease the you know the dirt and I mean the the greasy dirt away . |