Example sentences of "in [noun prp] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was by no means all consumed by the brethren in an orgy of gluttony ; most of the larger monastic records in Sussex would have shown a similar pattern , since there was a constant coming and going of important visitors and benefactors with extensive retinues . |
| 2 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 3 | It announced that Mexican drug enforcement agents in the USA were being ordered home immediately , and that US DEA personnel based in Mexico would have to cease their activities . |
| 4 | There was also a lot of Richard Strauss , which his Rosenkavalier at Cardiff in February would have capped . |
| 5 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
| 6 | Private shareholders in Concorde would have required a high expected return to entice them into such a risky project . |
| 7 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 8 | Polished pyramids of apples and pears , still-life arrangements of humble carrots and potatoes , hillocks of pale butter topped with parsley trees , cut flowers in superannuated tins green-painted — and a cast of salesmen who in England would have found employment only once a year , in pantomime . |
| 9 | He said it seemed inevitable that free travel for pensioners in Cleveland would have to end . |
| 10 | A restriction which , whatever the success of the industrial co-operative elsewhere , many in Britain would have judged to be wholly desirable ; for the recent British view had been distorted by what it saw as the examples of the Scottish Daily News , KME , and Meriden . |
| 11 | Sir Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , said in Belfast yesterday that people in Britain would have to face terrorist attacks with the same resilience , stoicism and bravery shown by the people of Northern Ireland for more than 20 years . |
| 12 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 13 | Recognising South Africa as a party to a dispute about its policies in Namibia would have required identification of the other parties . |
| 14 | Whereas a majority , 54 per cent , of households in Birmingham would have gained under the poll tax if it had been levied in 1988–9 , only 39 per cent of adults are shown to be gainers . |
| 15 | Secondly , both houses sitting jointly as a " congress " in Versailles would have to approve the revision by a 60 per cent majority . |
| 16 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 17 | The Guérigny parents started in a very small way , unable at first to buy at Les Halles all that their customers in Reine would have liked to buy for their tables . |
| 18 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 19 | A few years ago in environmentally aware-Holland an emergency shutdown in Borssele would have made banner headlines . |
| 20 | Moran is well-known , nor to say infamous , for outrageous avant-garde works such as an opera scored for 11 dogs , and another one about fascism in which the arriving audience in Frankfurt would have had numbers stamped on its arms , à la Auschwitz , if the piece had not been cancelled . |