Example sentences of "which would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were a few deaths in the dale which would n't have happened in later years . |
| 2 | Take light industry , for example , which would n't have the same access requirements . |
| 3 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 4 | So I told the press the next morning who were mega grumpy at all of this and I do n't blame them , so when the ceremony started Pat took the stills photographer round to the front and the television guys as the Princess began to inspect er the crew pulled all their gear through the Band of the Royal Marines over their toe caps under the tubas and pressed their cameras under the nose of the Princess Royal which would n't have happened had the Lieutenant Commander been prepared to listen to us and of course you could see him getting angrier and angrier |
| 5 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 6 | This , they noted , was particularly so in the German companies which would presumably have a comparative advantage over British firms in this respect anyway . |
| 7 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 8 | We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition . |
| 9 | This charge also applies to items which would normally have been returned but which have been guaranteed by a Barclays Connect card or cheque guarantee card . |
| 10 | The court which would normally have taken cognizance was that over which the lord presided ; and although it was in the lord 's court that the vassal made his defiance , it was usually done , not in person , but by messenger or herald , and the vassal could not at that stage accept any ruling of the court . |
| 11 | When a tree is removed , the water which would normally have been extracted remains in the ground , which can result in swelling . |
| 12 | He was frightened , despite the encouraging winks of Deuce and the occasional smile from Doug ; disoriented amid the tropical forest-sized plants , the silent , ceaseless escalators , the glass walls and lifts , the page boys in scarlet and green livery and all manner of sights which would normally have thrilled him and been companionable to his mind and stored for his sister . |
| 13 | The hindbrain and midbrain structures , normally associated with relaying sensory information to the cortex , spontaneously generate signals which are responsible for the cortical activation , and are also indistinguishable from signals which would normally have been relayed from the eyes and ears . |
| 14 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 15 | He watched her swing an indelicate leg over the top bar of her man 's bike , displaying a neatly rounded calf which would normally have engaged his interest , but in the cruel circumstances failed to register . |
| 16 | In Howell v. Coupland ( 1876 C.A ) , the seller agreed to sell 200 tons of the potato crop on a specific piece of land , which would normally have produced easily that amount . |
| 17 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 18 | Hundreds of T-shirts , jackets and trainers which would normally have been destroyed will now be put to good use in orphanages there . |
| 19 | The work of Freud , for example , has so entered our habits of thought that we now label ‘ objective ’ various forms of behaviour which would formerly have been regarded as reactive . |
| 20 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 21 | Thus , in New South Wales , for example , a new offence of sexual assault has been created consisting of four categories and covering conduct which would formerly have amounted to rape , indecent assault or non-consensual buggery . |
| 22 | This provided Railfreight with valuable contracts for long-distance bulk coil traffic , traffic which would not have materialised if the steel industry had survived the 1980s unscathed . |
| 23 | At one point , the prospectus states : ‘ A Water Service Company may at any time require the Director General to determine whether , and if so how , K should be changed where other circumstances which would not have been avoided by prudent management action , have a substantial adverse effect on its water or sewerage business . ’ |
| 24 | Barbel Bohley , a co-founder of the reformist discussion group New Forum , said the promise by the Politburo was ‘ only a verbal concession ’ which would not have any effect on real life . |
| 25 | The striking head is difficult to parallel stylistically , and the teeth seem to have been cut with an abrasive wheel which would not have been available in the Americas before the Spanish conquest . |
| 26 | When , a few minutes later , madam 's pancakes were brought , she ate her way through a plateful of stodge with brisk fortitude which would not have disgraced a squad of Irish navvies . |
| 27 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 28 | Notts ' team manager , John Birch , said : ‘ It is something we have been working towards but which would not have been possible without Swithland 's backing . ’ |
| 29 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 30 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |