Example sentences of "they would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 2 | If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer , one of them would have to go . |
| 3 | A letter from them would have done perfectly well . |
| 4 | More of them would have obtained jobs . |
| 5 | Well because they used to know through the agent and of course them , them would have to hang , row down the river and hang about |
| 6 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 7 | The Government points out that , for example , although this group would have lost entitlement to supplementary assistance , 1.2 million of them would have gained entitlement to standard housing benefit . |
| 8 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 9 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 10 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 11 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 12 | ‘ Neither of them would have engaged you . |
| 13 | McLeish had to remind himself that the dead girl behind them would have felt none of this dank chill . |
| 14 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 15 | have there been , to its knowledge , rights exercisable by or on behalf of two or more limited undertakings which if exercisable by one of them would have made the company a subsidiary of it , nor |
| 16 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 17 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 18 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 19 | How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ? |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 21 | ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight . |
| 22 | He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing . |
| 23 | Geologists realized that the formation of the rocks and the fossils in them would have taken hundreds or thousands of millions of years . |
| 24 | Any one of them would have promoted him instantly into mainstream Hollywood and even some of his friends thought he was mad . |
| 25 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 26 | The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home . |
| 27 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 28 | In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database . |
| 29 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 30 | To accept them would have meant a complete recantation of all his actions over the past five years . |