Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd have said please David I |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Messrs Jarvis did produce an ingenious creature which , with its standard outer case , would have fooled even Burke and Hare . |
| 3 | Dinosaurs would have inhabited both daytime and night-time niches determined by regular modes of activity under the control of biological clocks ; i.e. the circadian rhythm . |
| 4 | If Labour had eliminated these plans from its programme and continued to emphasise John Smith 's prudence ( as opposed to his curious ideas about minimum wages and confiscatory ‘ social justice ’ ) , then they would have swung more London and Midlands marginals their way . |
| 5 | Stephen would have liked further education , though he had n't expected Oxford or Cambridge or even , say , Nottingham . |
| 6 | Well i is n't if you 'd asked me last August when we bought the I would have said probably Radio Brittany or Radio Rouane |
| 7 | The king was more distressed by his death than by that of any other person except his own sister , and it seems certain that Berkeley would have received further advancement had he lived . |
| 8 | Before the Macintosh such capabilities would have cost around £25,000 . |
| 9 | Even leading a relatively simple life on Tour would have cost around £12,000 in expenses alone if a professional had played in all 21 events last season . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 11 | It is quite likely that to have attempted more would have done more harm than good : at all events , nothing more was attempted . |
| 12 | On that basis , Shell would have saved about £3 million by reducing its stake in the well . |
| 13 | ‘ If we apply the levies to the last full financial year , they would have raised almost £2million£1.6m generated by transfers and £360,000 from prize money . ’ |
| 14 | Even if 150,000 tons of traffic had been carried as Gordon Thomas hoped , the lockage would have represented only 25% of the total . |
| 15 | Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be . |
| 16 | Neither she nor the grandchildren had any knowledge of training ponies so that would have meant further outlay for someone to break them in and this justifiably , is not cheap . |
| 17 | If the goal of our search is to find the highest scoring path that spans the complete utterance a straightforward breadth-first algorithm would have to check approximately bn paths , where b is the average number of words at each choice point and n is the length of the utterance . |
| 18 | The cylinder was filled with a compressed chemical that would have smothered both Sweetman and me in an avalanche of nauseating foam . |
| 19 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 20 | At this time the universe would have contained mostly photons , electrons , and neutrinos ( extremely light particles that are affected only by the weak force and gravity ) and their antiparticles , together with some protons and neutrons . |
| 21 | By comparison , an Equitable Life 10-year endowment policy , with monthly premiums of £30 , would have produced about £8,399 . |
| 22 | Van Gogh 's Sunflowers according to an estimate from James Roundell of Christie 's Impressionist department , would have fetched around £4–5 million in 1980 compared to £30 million plus today |
| 23 | The handle would have measured about 5in in length and terminated in a point . |
| 24 | Lloyd 's List had earlier reported the Kharg/northwest Europe voyage as particularly profitable : a VLCC at current rates could pick up $3.7 million at W40 which would yield a 25 per cent profit , compared with W27 a month earlier which would have earned just $1.5 million . |
| 25 | The Post Office discovered that the treatment of VAT caused some problems and would have welcomed further explanation of this matter in FRS 1 . |
| 26 | Attlee , had he won the 1935 election , would have taken exactly Baldwin 's line in substance , but at that stage in his career would have done so without assurance or persuasiveness . |
| 27 | In this way he looked like defending it , though it would have taken only seconds to turn their guns in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | Who would have thought today Sarajevo , where the first shot of that war was fired , would be in the news ? |
| 29 | I would have thought so darling . |