Example sentences of "it would have do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of Argyll and Milton clearly had proved insufficient to turn matters around in the excise establishment at Inverkeithing where it would have done most good . |
| 2 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 3 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 4 | If it had not been for the extraordinary resilience of Hitler 's Wehrmacht and the fortitude of the German people , it would have done so . |
| 5 | For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) . |
| 6 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |
| 7 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 8 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 9 | Not only would The Silmarillion have to achieve the ‘ depth ’ it had already been used to create , it would have to do so without contradicting , and while if possible reinforcing , all the millions of details Tolkien had handed over to his readership already . |