Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have devised the material ‘ in house ’ using DES and HMI would have been and would have been seen to be unhealthily parochial ; to have used the National Curriculum Council would have involved too great a delay . |
| 2 | If you knew the place in 1959 you 'd realise that lectures on Camus and Same would have fallen completely flat . |
| 3 | If he had let go , he would have fallen about thirty feet on to a narrow ledge , where boxes had been placed to break his fall . |
| 4 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 5 | They must have been extremely hard to fool , otherwise the insects would not have evolved to become as perfect mimics as they are : they would have remained relatively imperfect mimics . |
| 6 | He would have become just another abortion statistic , and speaks almost bitterly of having his ‘ own downtrodden minority . |
| 7 | Additionally , the texts would have become more lucid had the book been adequately illustrated , which brings me to my second qualm . |
| 8 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 9 | Dear Colleague , With the passage of the Animals ( Scientific Procedures ) Bill in 1986 , we may have thought that the animal rights movement would have become less militant and that scientific research would be subject to less disruption . |
| 10 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |
| 11 | The government argued that this was correct since many projects would have gone ahead irrespective of automatic grant . |
| 12 | If his ‘ 666 ’ claim — he chose the devil 's number — was true he would have treated roughly half the known HIV-positive women in Britain . |
| 13 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 14 | Evidence of a psychologist was heard on the voir dire , the essence of whose testimony was that when B had made the admissions he had been suffering from a relatively mild form of paranoid psychosis , the effect of which was that , under the stress of questioning , he would have felt very threatened , been likely to tell lies , and to make untrue admissions . |
| 15 | Erm , when I first started erm I think the typists felt that erm as an ordinary typist I ought to er be in the typing pool but the I 'm glad I did n't because I do n't think I would have felt very happy amongst er |
| 16 | They skirted the edge of the open space , keeping to the borders of woodland which had once been landscaped , and Melanie was grateful , for she would have felt too visible , too exposed out on the sea of grass — a sitting target for some marksman , for the arrow of any figure in Lincoln green who might be flitting among the mossy trunks . |
| 17 | Nenna would have felt better pleased with herself if she had resembled her elder daughter . |
| 18 | They would have felt more cautious if they 'd known one of his qualifications was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe with a rifle . |
| 19 | She would have felt more able to respond if only he 'd exploded in a burst of anger . |
| 20 | I would have felt much happier if the word had been will rather than could . |
| 21 | Mr Justice Cooke said that if a receiver failed to terminate a receivership although he had funds that would have achieved just that , then he should be treated as if his authority had ceased . |
| 22 | He would have stayed there more regularly , but Chris 's meagre income and drinking habits allowed little scope for the financing of electricity . |
| 23 | So you make er you know we 've my I would have explained as much as I can on the phone exactly how we operate . |
| 24 | Father would have arranged that likely . |
| 25 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 26 | He would have liked very much to be alone . |
| 27 | Stephen had already taken in two things : that he was with a set of people he would have liked very much to belong to , and that Annabel was hitched to a man who treated her idly . |
| 28 | It was from him that Rostov learned that under normal circumstances the whole camp would have moved about two hundred verst to the north during the late afternoon and through the night — probably all the way to Pesth — but that a full day 's rest had been ordered by the Khan . |
| 29 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 30 | They all , without exception , point to the harsh circumstances of the Hauxwells , which would have crushed less resilient souls . |