Example sentences of "would have [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 2 | The oscillators can not be at rest because then they would have exactly defined positions and moments . |
| 3 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 4 | She would have just said Charlie 's home . ’ |
| 5 | The bill also would have also allowed registration by mail and at unemployment and welfare offices . |
| 6 | Large tracts of Norfolk and north Essex would have been ceded to the Board and which , perhaps of immediate significance at that time , would have effectively prevented Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith from organising their growing number of WEA Chapter III courses and establishing branches in both counties . |
| 7 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 8 | By conceding on the timetable , O'Neill gifted the Republicans an important advantage , helping them by drastically curtailing the protracted and damaging interplay of pluralist forces that would have otherwise taken place over the budget . |
| 9 | This extra load would have badly affected telephone response time if the two functions had not been separated . |
| 10 | In the first called Ascot , Nielsen disguises himself cunningly in a hat that would have probably made Gertrude Shilling turn pale . |
| 11 | Defeat would have officially sent Cowdenbeath to the Second Division but that inevitable fate has only been delayed . |
| 12 | ‘ Yesterday , I think you would have happily helped Zambia Crevecoeur escape the city and then forgotten about hir . |
| 13 | Reference to your own back issues would have quickly revealed onchocerciasis to be associated with running water with little , if any , pollution . |
| 14 | The drawings might be the same , but in 1793 the etched line of the Prince of Wales 's belly would have inevitably expressed Jacobin , and regicidal , sympathies . |
| 15 | They even dash off a version of Magazine 's ‘ Shot by Both Sides ’ , that would have seriously disturbed Howard Devoto if he was present . |
| 16 | The total write-down on £102.7m would have seriously dented Trafalgar 's £122.4m of pre-tax profits for 1991 . |
| 17 | Not that their patronage would have necessarily ensured success . |
| 18 | This would have actually brought Bishop 's Castle , Montgomery Town , Llanfair Caereinion , Llangynog , Llandrillo , Bala , Ffestiniog and Portmadoc within its compass . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |