Example sentences of "it would have mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAD GENERAL Manuel Noriega been overthrown by rebel troops , it would have meant the end of a two-year political crisis that has wrecked Panama 's economy and brought political embarrassment and frustration to the United States . |
| 2 | He was offered enormous sums to go to South Africa but would never contemplate it ; it would have meant a betrayal of everything he stood for , a soul-selling of Faustian proportions . |
| 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 | It would have meant living in a shoe box in Clapham Junction or something similar . |
| 5 | If Rees had been successful there , it would have meant that legislation would have had to be introduced into Parliament which would remove those legal disabilities affecting transsexuals which the court may find contravene the Convention . |
| 6 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 7 | It would have meant utter devastation . ’ |
| 8 | If he had been , it would have meant the end of Vincent 's support-system . |
| 9 | If the grid had remained under the control of the generating companies , it would have meant that the government had accepted the CEGB 's view that an integrated network was the key to efficiency and lower prices . |
| 10 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would have meant humiliation , and the end , without much chance of resurrection , of one of the shortest-lived and most disastrous party leaderships in British political history . |
| 13 | This grandmother can be a heroine for me now , although it would have meant more to have been closer to her in life . |
| 14 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 15 | ‘ He was Gervaise 's baby , Cynthia , and with Gervaise dying , it would have meant part of him lived on . |
| 16 | If the lightning had struck me like it had Ben , it would have meant no hope for me . |
| 17 | She had feared that if she made a claim for poor relief it would have meant the break-up of her family . |
| 18 | Clare thought of telling her what it would have meant to her as a young girl to have a nicely furnished room to herself — what it would mean to her now for that matter — but sensed that such remarks would serve no useful purpose . |
| 19 | It would have meant the hole was stopped , they could n't be pushed into it themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ It would have meant , Inspector , ’ explained Angelina , ‘ that Sir Thomas would still be chairman when the next Year of the Lion began . |
| 21 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 22 | It would have meant admitting to myself that I was wrong … |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Only because it would have meant stopping the pre-pack . |
| 25 | It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless . |
| 26 | But it would have meant destroying part of the ancient Lugg Meadow . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would have meant |