Example sentences of "they would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If the judges in Elmer 's case had been strict conventionalists they would have decided that case in two stages . |
| 3 | But they would have said that anyway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | For if species identification was the function of the stripes they would have diverged much more in the three cases . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I wonder if they would have done that with only SCUM ? |
| 10 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 11 | These exquisitely preserved gastropods are largely free of the enclosing matrix , and look now much as they would have done 60 million years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In that case they would have obtained 50 per cent . |
| 14 | Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it . |
| 15 | If the Government had wanted to make the Bill an election winner , they would have seen that political advantage . |
| 16 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 17 | They would have lost each other . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If those threads were slack , they would have absorbed much of the energy of the returning hammer . |
| 20 | They were all also , in one way or another , prejudiced and snobbish , although they would have denied this with their dying breath . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I think they would have made excellent doctors , now they are not doctors . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Her family survived the war in the occupied Dutch city of Arnhem , but they would have gone hungry as the Nazis retreated without the help of international aid groups . |
| 27 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 28 | If workers had been in the vicinity , they would have received high doses of radiation . |
| 29 | Why ca nt they realise for a second that if he had been playing , maybe they would have won all 6 matches and pissed on all of the sides ? |
| 30 | But they would have looked ridiculous alongside the others . |