Example sentences of "that [pron] would have " in BNC.

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1 The two assistants swore that nothing would have changed by the time he returned .
2 I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that .
3 A guide to procedure should be produced so that everyone would have an outline of a desirable order of events and to ensure proper standards of fairness and impartiality .
4 On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 .
5 I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because
6 Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway .
7 Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic .
8 Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement .
9 I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible .
10 This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems .
11 Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own .
12 I had got so used to the straight criss-crossing North-South , East-West roads of most American cities that I would have to acquire a taste for the more complex and possibly much more fascinating spread of London lanes .
13 ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said .
14 I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday .
15 The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’
16 After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out .
17 I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit .
18 I am sure that I would have got on with both men , famously well .
19 I discover that I would have to put on nearly three stone to be anywhere near what they weigh , and what I think must be normal .
20 By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick .
21 The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan .
22 I may say that we both agreed that our relations will be governed by his decision , that I would have gone along with it had he made a mistake which harmed me .
23 When I joined the NCT , like most members , I did so because I wanted the best antenatal classes possible and it seemed that I would have the chance to meet new mothers and make new friends after the birth too .
24 To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question .
25 I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible .
26 I now knew that I would have to put the wheelbarrow back on the road next morning , despite a relative abundance of settlements .
27 I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying .
28 I was contemplating going back to Reggane , but if the map was wrong , then that would mean that I would have to walk back this way .
29 M. B. I am quite candidly of the opinion that I would have left the police out of a feeling of resentment because I was overlooked time and time again for inferior men .
30 My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas .
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