Example sentences of "that they [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It mattered as little as it seemed to matter to Lucy that they would have — yet another — three weeks apart . |
| 2 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 3 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 4 | Societies privately admit that they would have to respond with still higher mortgage rates if the Government raises base rates again to prop up sterling . |
| 5 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 6 | There were no discussions at all on the improvement of the peasant economy , despite the fact that they would have reaped quick propaganda rewards for the Bolshevik Party . |
| 7 | Sure enough , Joseph Chamberlain and others proceeded to do just that ; and sure enough , it was the Canadians who patiently but persistently explained that they would have none of it . |
| 8 | The Admiralty were also well aware that the Air Council would oppose a naval bid for Polaris , and that they would have most of Whitehall on their side . |
| 9 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 10 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 11 | By so doing they colluded in the evils that they would have wished to remedy had they faced them fair and square . |
| 12 | WHILE the European Commission refused to give any public reaction to the Tories ’ victory , senior Brussels bureaucrats made little secret of the fact that they would have preferred a more pliable Labour government . |
| 13 | The judges discharged the costs order made against the wives for the High Court hearing , but said that they would have to meet the council 's bill for the appeal . |
| 14 | For example , the Altrincham governors could have argued that there was a safety risk in the girls wearing scarves in the laboratory or workshop — although it is by no means clear that they would have succeeded on this basis . |
| 15 | But if loving parents freely admit that they would have chosen to let the child die if given the choice , it is clear that the vast majority of parents would take this view if given an option by the doctor concerned . |
| 16 | The filthy colonial military compounds so recently evacuated by the British and French provided convenient quarters for those who were now destined to spend most of their lives in exile , even though neither they nor their unwilling Lebanese hosts yet knew that they would have to do so . |
| 17 | The DHAC announced that the exercise would be repeated the following weekend ; although the police warned that they would have to intervene this time , the demonstration went ahead and was extended to forty-eight hours . |
| 18 | The origin of these substances did not suggest that they would have magical or mystical properties , and so began to dispel ideas that psychotropic drugs had any metaphysical significance . |
| 19 | These drugs were intended to have specific effects and on the whole it was hoped that they would have as few other effects as possible . |
| 20 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 21 | That , despite the recession and the fact that they would have to forfeit two weeks work . |
| 22 | It was not known whether they would be the most advanced protagonists of environmental scanning , but for various reasons it was expected that they would have views about scanning and about the extent to which they wished to undertake formal environmental analysis . |
| 23 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 24 | In the early days of the clearinghouses it was anticipated that they would have difficulty in persuading librarians to contribute their material . |
| 25 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 26 | Breeze returned to her companions and broke the news that they would have to walk . |
| 27 | It was becoming increasingly clear to the Prussians that they would have great difficulty in making their eastern possessions a financial success : the only way to make the eastern marches profitable was to exploit the poor natural resources to the limit and develop industrial capacity . |
| 28 | The wise old heads believe that they would have prevailed and that he would have been forced to wait until the spring . |
| 29 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 30 | A thought-provoking , if somewhat radical , plan from the American camp , and it is clear that they would have a strong-looking team . |