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 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the judges in Elmer 's case had been strict conventionalists they would have decided that case in two stages . |
| 8 | But they would have said that anyway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | For if species identification was the function of the stripes they would have diverged much more in the three cases . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I wonder if they would have done that with only SCUM ? |
| 15 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 16 | These exquisitely preserved gastropods are largely free of the enclosing matrix , and look now much as they would have done 60 million years ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In that case they would have obtained 50 per cent . |
| 19 | Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it . |
| 20 | If the Government had wanted to make the Bill an election winner , they would have seen that political advantage . |
| 21 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 22 | They would have lost each other . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If those threads were slack , they would have absorbed much of the energy of the returning hammer . |
| 25 | They were all also , in one way or another , prejudiced and snobbish , although they would have denied this with their dying breath . |
| 26 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 27 | I think they would have made excellent doctors , now they are not doctors . |
| 28 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 29 | But then he asks himself if people would have enjoyed the story any more had it been true , and if they would have achieved any greater insight into themselves and their destinies . |
| 30 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |