Example sentences of "and would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always impressed by his fame and would have liked a theatrical career . |
| 2 | The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers . |
| 3 | It looked like something indescribable , but I must admit it smelt and tasted good , and anyway we were all starving and would have eaten a horse . |
| 4 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 5 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 6 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 7 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 8 | The sort of person Moran was would have been an IRA person and belonged to the IRA at the foundation of the country and would have had a tricolour on his coffin . |
| 9 | In the end , the Kitsuka was designated as a special attack weapon , and would have carried a half-ton bomb . |
| 10 | He said even if he had known it was an aneurysm , it may have been totally inoperable and would have carried a mortality rate of 80% . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
| 13 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |
| 14 | Slivers of black burnt onion , petrified bacon rinds , lacy brown scraps of fried eggs and scores of other morsels from tomatoes , sausages , steaks , chops , liver , potatoes , bread and baked beans here lay cheek by jowl , and would have afforded a rich reward to anyone interested in Mr Piggott 's diet over the past year . |
| 15 | Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " . |
| 16 | The strings available to Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran in the mid-'50s would have ranged from medium ( .011-.52 or more ) to heavy ( .013-.60 ) gauge and would have included a wound third . |
| 17 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 18 | His summing-up left the jury in no doubt about his own views and would have required a jury of quite exceptional perversity to have brought in a guilty verdict . |