Example sentences of "they would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure the system would have been implemented in the quarry , and they would 've suffered even worse than us . |
| 2 | They would 've understood . |
| 3 | Cos if they were trying to get peasant support and erm showing the importance of peasants instead of the United Front they would 've made it public . |
| 4 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 5 | Had somebody been in there to see they would 've spoken to them |
| 6 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 7 | Measured by the middle group 's criteria they would 've had three then would they ? |
| 8 | I think the reason they probably did this because it 's , it 's , it was politically harder to do that , they would 've had to taken a lot more responsibility . |
| 9 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 10 | Even with bone cross-sections only 100 times bigger than normal they would have reached breaking point , which is induced by stresses of a factor of ten or above . |
| 11 | Even so , the potential gain from a lower rate — even if it had been negotiable through the International Monetary Fund — is not easy to estimate because of the problems of relative elasticities of demand for both exports and imports and the problem of the cost effects of higher import prices , not least as they would have affected wage bargaining [ Ball , 1967 ] . |
| 12 | They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure . |
| 13 | They would have to disclose commercial property holdings , share holdings , gifts received above a value of NZ$500 , and outside income . |
| 14 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 15 | The tour was appropriately chaotic , as most rock tours are : their first taste of the twenty-four hour a day , day to day flogging to which they would have to submit in order to compete . |
| 16 | At most they would have remained as caretakers of the museum pieces of the past , reminding the young in this brave new , smug , boring , consensual world of the bad old days when people felt deeply about big issues and the future was uncertain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 21 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 22 | By this time , if not long before , they would have phoned her parents and talked it all over with them . |
| 23 | At this stage the society acknowledged they would have to undertake any work themselves . |
| 24 | They could increase their holdings of capital , by charging more in depreciation than they would have charged in principal repayments . |
| 25 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 26 | They would have dug out his file from the Ministry of Defence , and got chapter and verse on his time in the army . |
| 27 | They would have exploited to the full every real and imagined grievance . |
| 28 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 29 | Yes , I agree , ‘ if you mentioned clubs to most indie bands 18 months ago they would have spat in your face ’ , but only because the elitists controlled it . |
| 30 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |