Example sentences of "[noun sg] would not [vb infin] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Amabel could not stop herself from thinking that this dreadful , dirty town must surely be to blame , that if Gemma had been less stubborn about remaining here , in this dark old manor , standing cheek-by-jowl with the brewery and the foundry and those hundreds and hundreds of unwashed , unlettered people who worked in them , then this tragedy would not have occurred . |
| 2 | This is not to say that if the situation had been different then it would still be true that if all of either had not existed , then if the other had not , the effect would not have occurred . |
| 3 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 4 | ‘ If correct depths had been shown on the charts , the QE2 would have avoided the area completely and the grounding would not have occurred . ’ |
| 5 | This basic test is whether the damage would not have occurred but for the breach of duty . |
| 6 | The plaintiff must prove that his damage would not have occurred , but for the defendant 's breach of duty . |
| 7 | If I had done , then the secondary would not have occurred . |
| 8 | Such a thing would not have occurred to Jasper or to any of them . |
| 9 | If the injury due to the escape of the noxious thing would not have occurred but for the unusual sensitiveness of the plaintiff 's property , there is some conflict of authority whether this can be regarded as default of the plaintiff . |
| 10 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 11 | In this context of the numbers of men , the use of weapons and the multiple attacks , it would be unlikely that a conviction would not have occurred , even without the racial theme . |
| 12 | Deaths from overexposure would not have occurred until years later and so caused no immediate alarm . |
| 13 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |