Example sentences of "would still have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 2 | Effects are such , on the view of causation to which we have come , since there is the possibility of finding those things which no matter their accompaniment would still have been followed by the effect . |
| 3 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 4 | Although the telephone wires had been cut minutes before the assault he knew the authorities would still have been alerted and were almost certainly on their way to the prison at that very moment . |
| 5 | But something would still have been gained , for we would not be claiming to know on the basis of experience the nature of a world which is independent of experience . |
| 6 | But even if there had been , the groups would still have been unified by their joint involvement in a single ambitious enterprise , a single overriding endeavour — to rid their land of the Roman occupation and reinstate the old Judaic monarchy together with its rightful priesthood . |
| 7 | But probably by this time nobody would still have been listening . |
| 8 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 9 | ‘ Had the contract been simply for so many tons of potatoes of a particular quality then , although each party might have had in his mind when he made the contract this particular crop of potatoes , if they had all perished , the defendant would still have been bound to deliver the quantity contracted for . ’ |
| 10 | A female employee was offensively treated by two male colleagues , but at first her claim was rejected because the industrial tribunal felt that , had she been a man , she would still have been harassed , although the specific nature of the unpleasantness might have been different . |
| 11 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 12 | Even if the word ‘ seeking ’ had been added , the bottles would still have been thrown . |