Example sentences of "they would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 2 | Geologists realized that the formation of the rocks and the fossils in them would have taken hundreds or thousands of millions of years . |
| 3 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 4 | The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 6 | To be honest , I do n't think they 'd have done that a year ago Brian . |
| 7 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 8 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 9 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 10 | What people tend to do is they answer a question that they 've revised well and they can easily answer and they spend an hour and a half on it and then they fi they do , I mean you know you see them answering they write you pages and pages and pages and it 's a perfect answer and they get maybe ninety percent but had they spent about half as much time they 'd have got seventy percent anyway because they knew most of the important bits . |
| 11 | Or actually no they would n't , they were bold Egyptians , they 'd have used all manner of things that they could |
| 12 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 13 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 14 | If the judges in Elmer 's case had been strict conventionalists they would have decided that case in two stages . |
| 15 | But they would have said that anyway . |
| 16 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 17 | Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn . |
| 18 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 19 | For if species identification was the function of the stripes they would have diverged much more in the three cases . |
| 20 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 21 | I wonder if they would have done that with only SCUM ? |
| 22 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 23 | These exquisitely preserved gastropods are largely free of the enclosing matrix , and look now much as they would have done 60 million years ago . |
| 24 | You know , some pre-literate tribe somewhere , with the medicine men of the tribes meeting an opposing medicine man of a tribe , they would have done some kind of ceremony beforehand . |
| 25 | In that case they would have obtained 50 per cent . |
| 26 | Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it . |
| 27 | If the Government had wanted to make the Bill an election winner , they would have seen that political advantage . |
| 28 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 29 | They would have lost each other . |
| 30 | The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat . |