Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Tenterden C.J. went on to point out that the defendant in the first action would not have been relieved from having to contribute to the defendant in the second case if the latter had been compelled to pay a larger portion than his share . |
| 2 | Under this Act a child born alive , but suffering from a physical or mental defect as a result of something which happened before its birth , has a right of action for damages if the defendant would also have been liable in tort for what occurred to the parent if sued in time . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel I owe it to my sponsor Charlie Smiley , and to Joe Millar , of Millar Transport , who arrange a tremendous product package for me , without which the programme would not have been possible . ’ |
| 4 | He claims that major fiascos such as BCCI , Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell pension fraud would not have been possible without the connivance of offshore centres . |
| 5 | Come to think of it , if Major had revealed the side of himself we 're now seeing , the result would also have been different . |
| 6 | Had a serious run developed on the Bank of China in 1983 , which thankfully it did not , the result would probably have been catastrophic . |
| 7 | Given the problems , only a drastic reduction in overheads could have stopped the haemorrhage , but a massive capital investment would also have been essential . |
| 8 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 9 | Indeed , had the populist programme been realized , the effect would not have been direct transition to socialism at all , but the more rapid development of capitalism . |
| 10 | His defence was , therefore , that on the facts as he reasonably believed them to be , his use of force would not have been unlawful , and he was entitled to be acquitted according to the ordinary principles governing criminal liability . |
| 11 | But without Ceauşescu 's discretion — Bucharest was not as leaky a diplomatic centre as Washington — the American President would not have been able to achieve the one great success of his presidency , the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt . |
| 12 | Without their goodwill , and that of their staff who assisted in compiling figures , the research would not have been possible . |
| 13 | Without their goodwill and that of their staff who assisted in compiling figures , the research would not have been possible . |
| 14 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 15 | thanks Our thanks to the following salons without whose help this issue would not have been possible |
| 16 | Our thanks to the following salons without whose help this issue would not have been possible |
| 17 | The boy would hardly have been stupid enough to invent the tale about the lamps and it was easily possible that Ernie Passmore had been mistaken about the night . |
| 18 | The application of the wife of a politburo member to study at a research institute would never have been easy to reject . |
| 19 | Had the 6th edition been available to him , the whole evolution of homœopathy would surely have been different . |
| 20 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 21 | I have said hundreds of times — in the House and outside — that , in 1979 , that girl would not have been homeless . |
| 22 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 23 | However , the position would have been different if the nodes had been defective and caused damage or injury to the buyer : the seller would then have been open to a claim in tort , or perhaps under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , but would have been unprotected by any exclusion , limitation or indemnity clauses . |
| 24 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 25 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 26 | Had it not been for the tragic accident at Hockenheim , Jim Clark 's record would surely have been unsurpassable . |
| 27 | In the event , the task was so large that a small group would not have been able to cope with it alone . |
| 28 | I dedicate this article to the memory of Eric Mosley who helped me so much in the early days of my research , to George Wyndham Parker for his encouragement , and to Jack Alcock , without whom this article would never have been possible , my only wish is that I could have met him in person . |
| 29 | A martingale would also have been superfluous , though I did buckle a stirrup leather round his neck to give a ‘ just in case ’ neckstrap . |
| 30 | I think the postman would never have been able to decipher your scribble , your own version of Walser 's MS , Bleistiftgebiet or Kingdom of the Pencil , which we were to describe in a later poem , ‘ The Poem in the Pencil ’ . |