Example sentences of "would still [vb infin] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not believe , although 6 caused e , that if c occurred then whatever the situation had been , e would still have occurred . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such connection is what is stated by independent nomic conditionals and , of course , holds between any two things when it is true that if or since the first occurred , then even if any change logically consistent with either had also occurred , the second would still have occurred . |
| 5 | But to assert that is by definition to assert no more than a certain independent conditional-roughly , that since the circumstance existed , even if most other things had been different , the effect would still have occurred . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 9 | Suppose a radical objector says of an effect , the smell made by the candles when they were snuffed , that there existed 110 circumstance such that no matter if certain other events or conditions occurred , the effect would still have occurred . |