Example sentences of "[letter] would still have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We do not believe , although 6 caused e , that if c occurred then whatever the situation had been , e would still have occurred . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |