Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She jumped back a pace and would have gone further but the phone cable prevented it . |
| 2 | I would have felt worse had they . |
| 3 | There was n't anyone else in sight , she would have felt safer if there was . |
| 4 | France , meanwhile , would have liked tougher quotas , while Britain wanted no import limits at all . |
| 5 | ‘ The chips were so bad the carton would have tasted better . |
| 6 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 7 | These would have evolved in such a way that the displayer would have appeared bigger and more frightening . |
| 8 | Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it . |
| 9 | I would have dallied longer but the venerable Bere came down to wish us farewell . |
| 10 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 11 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 12 | He would have preferred greater child provision , too . |
| 13 | Like-for-like replacement will be needed in the short term instead of larger-scale installation of newer systems which would have allowed faster trains . |
| 14 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 15 | it in there , but I , I think a double garage would have looked better than that , actually . |
| 16 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 17 | He also thought she would have looked younger and fitter . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have chosen better circumstances , ’ said Rocastle . |
| 19 | Managing director Bernard Segrave-Daly said he had also been hoping the Chancellor would have introduced a duty system which would have helped smaller firms . |
| 20 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 21 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 22 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 23 | Melissa flushed vivid puce , threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off . |
| 24 | To succeed , the book would have required greater impartiality , a more critical appraisal of the work described and more attention to the balance between topics . |
| 25 | Roslavl' officials would have lain quieter in their beds at night if they had bothered to read Maxim Gorky 's book On the Russian Peasantry published that same year . |
| 26 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 27 | Maybe it would have got better without treatment — it happened sometimes ; it was difficult to be sure . |
| 28 | If we had , if we 'd been a bit more rigorous with our criteria , our group would have got smaller . |