Example sentences of "it would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 2 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 3 | ‘ But it would have made all the difference to Project Eden , ’ Cheryl muttered . |
| 4 | The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble . |
| 5 | Quite possibly , it would have made little difference . |
| 6 | If he allowed them to know he understood German , it would have made little difference . |
| 7 | It would have made little difference , however . |
| 8 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 9 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 10 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 11 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 12 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 13 | If she 'd been forty , I doubt if it would have made any difference — to either of us . ’ |
| 14 | Not that it would have made any difference because I mean , people used to go into shops on that side , which never came up our way and the same with us , coming up there and not going that way is n't it . |
| 15 | Explain if it would have made any difference if the garage owner had said he would sell the car for £1,000 although no price was displayed . |
| 16 | King did not jump , not that it would have made any difference if he had . |
| 17 | Sometimes over the past year she had wondered whether if Fernando had mentioned marriage it would have made any difference . |
| 18 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 19 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 20 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 21 | Intriguing but unimportant differences were that the Earth spun much faster in those early days — so the days and nights were much shorter ; and the moon was much closer , so it would have appeared vast in the sky ( if there had been any creature to observe it ) and the tides would have been far more dramatic . |
| 22 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 23 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 24 | It would have freed numerous troops from guard and patrol work . |
| 25 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 26 | It would have obliged local authorities to draw up a register of contaminated sites in their area , and supervise their clean-up . |
| 27 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 28 | ‘ It would have saved all the cleaning and clearing that 's going on today , but I suppose we simply did what we always do . |
| 29 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 30 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |