Example sentences of "which would have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been a lot of talk about taxing invalidity benefit , children 's clothes and food which would have drastically affected a lot of people , especially those needing special diets . |
| 2 | The amendment also protects the carrier from claims of ‘ fundamental breach of the contract ’ for misdelivery or deviation which would have otherwise voided the contract and rendered the one year time bar inapplicable . |
| 3 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
| 4 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 5 | Although the NF had won the May general election [ see p. 38188 ] it did not have the necessary two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly which would have automatically awarded its candidate the presidency . |
| 6 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 7 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 8 | For sheltered housing , which would have greatly benefitted some clients , there was a long waiting list . |
| 9 | A motion which would have specifically committed ] the party against fusion was not put on the chairman 's decision ; the diehards accepted this ruling without demur , no doubt because they felt that they had already made their point . |
| 10 | More recently , the Prospect Inn was threatened by an enlargement scheme by Whitbread which would have totally destroyed the remaining original features of the building , and its remarkable plan . |
| 11 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 12 | His speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 was tame , his creation of a secret committee in 1857 was the traditional way to sweep calls for change under the carpet , the Nazimov Rescript envisaged a form of emancipation which would have severely damaged the peasantry , the relaxation of censorship in January 1858 was short-lived and the provincial tour of 1858 represented yet another futile attempt to persuade nobles to accept a measure they were bent on resisting . |
| 13 | Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides . |