Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [vb infin] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deaths from overexposure would not have occurred until years later and so caused no immediate alarm . |
| 2 | If I had done , then the secondary would not have occurred . |
| 3 | Some initiatives may have been initially funded through Urban Programme expenditure : the enveloping of the external fabric of older dwellings and managed workshops ( discussed in Chapter 7 ) were initiated using the Urban Programme , but it would be difficult to argue that these would not have occurred if Urban Programme funds had not been available . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would not have occurred to him to attempt forgetfulness by inhibiting memories of Ecalpemos . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But it is difficult to see what this could mean other than that some deviance , at least , would not have occurred had it not been for the societal response — that is , had been caused by it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such a thing would not have occurred to Jasper or to any of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And the successful formalization of data can open up questions for research , and types of evidence , which would not have occurred to the research community without the effort to present the data in computer-friendly form . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Pointing out that there have been blunders in the past through the introduction of inadequately evaluated methods of prophylaxis ( for example , oxygen for retinopathy of prematurity ) which , with the benefit of hindsight , would not have occurred had they been investigated properly , has all the conviction of a sermon in a secular world . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | driver of vehicle involved in collison with another vehicle exonerated for responsibility for subsequent events which occur because another driver has driven recklessly and which would not have occurred had that driver been driving merely negligently . |
| 18 | ‘ If correct depths had been shown on the charts , the QE2 would have avoided the area completely and the grounding would not have occurred . ’ |
| 19 | This basic test is whether the damage would not have occurred but for the breach of duty . |
| 20 | The plaintiff must prove that his damage would not have occurred , but for the defendant 's breach of duty . |
| 21 | Cross-examined by Leeona Dorrian , QC , for the Department of Transport and the Health and Safety Executive , he acknowledged that the collisions at both Bellgrove and Newton would not have occurred had their current single-track lay-outs had not been introduced . |
| 22 | And that would n't have occurred that weekend on the Ropewalk if there 'd have been a proper programme , of empty emptying gullies . |
| 23 | It would n't have occurred to you to leave Adam in peace and let him have a well-deserved weekend off , would it ? |
| 24 | And I , would n't have occurred to me to send the P elevens . |