Example sentences of "[conj] it would have mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | This grandmother can be a heroine for me now , although it would have meant more to have been closer to her in life . |
| 2 | But it would have meant destroying part of the ancient Lugg Meadow . |
| 3 | TERRY Waite passed up a chance of escape while he was held hostage because it would have meant shooting one of his captors , he reveals today . |
| 4 | But intuition used to be the favoured type of knowledge , and St Thomas Aquinas , for example , would never have allowed intuition to constitute a specifically feminine attribute , because it would have meant admitting that women were nearer God . |
| 5 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 6 | Only because it would have meant stopping the pre-pack . |
| 7 | In sharp contrast to most of his contemporaries , Pétain seemed unambitious almost to the point of self-extinction ; when offered the post of Commandant to the Rifle School , he refused because it would have meant his promotion over the heads of more senior majors . |
| 8 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |