Example sentences of "[letter] would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A widely accepted understanding of power is that it is the ability of A to cause B to behave in a manner intended by A that B would not have done without A 's intervention . |
| 2 | Expressed one way , as we generally shall , they are of the form If a occurred , then even if any events or conditions logically consistent with a and b had also occurred , in place of those which did , b would still have occurred . |
| 3 | Looking at this one , if we pulled a red one out of bag A and put it into bag B , bag B would now have three blue , and four red . |
| 4 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 5 | The belief that f caused s , then , is in part that if f had not occurred , s would not have , that if s occurred so did f . |
| 6 | The belief is not in part what is certainly different , that even if x occurred , if f had not occurred , s would not have — or that even if x had occurred , if s occurred , so did f . |
| 7 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 8 | If I was on my own I would n't have done it but when there are other guys there you ca n't say no . |
| 9 | If * I* * were Batty i would never have left . |
| 10 | The first is based squarely on the suggestion that it is simply an illusion to suppose that any truth , or any significant role in social explanation need be assigned to counterfactuals of the form , ‘ If individual X had not had the psychological characteristic a , they could not have performed action b and event p would not have occurred . ’ |
| 11 | To draw an explicit conclusion about what we have so far of causes and effects , if a particular event c caused some event e , then one of these two criteria was satisfied : ( I ) If c had not happened , then e would not have happened . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) If cc had not existed , e would not have happened . |
| 13 | If each of the others had not been complete , then if cc had not been , e would not have happened . |
| 14 | If the other or others had not occurred , then if c had also not occurred , e would n't have . |
| 15 | We do not believe , although 6 caused e , that if c occurred then whatever the situation had been , e would still have occurred . |
| 16 | We can now contemplate that the relevant cc-e connection , when we suppose that cc caused e , can be stated in this way : If cc occurred , then even if x had occurred , e would still have occurred . |
| 17 | Clearly we do not believe that since cc occurred , e would still have as it did , even if k had been missing . |
| 18 | If we maintain that cc was a causal circumstance for & , we are maintaining the conditionals of which we know , notably that if cc occurred , then even if certain things of a general class had also occurred , e would still have occurred . |
| 19 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 20 | no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years |
| 21 | More generally , if cc was a causal circumstance for c , and with the other terms defined as with ( 5 ) , we have this : ( 7 ) If none of cc " or cc " or … existed , then if cc had not existed , even if any change x had occurred logically consistent with that and with e 's absence , c would not have happened . |