Example sentences of "then we would have " in BNC.

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1 If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon .
2 If he had said Labour would put social justice before affluence , then we would have known where we were .
3 If a Pamplona Institute on CALL only attracted Navarrans then we would have failed and would have been better off doing something specifically for Catalonia or Madrid .
4 If we were to believe the local paper reports then we would have to accept that The Smiths were attacked by hordes of outraged loyalists , which was far from the truth .
5 The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him .
6 I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to .
7 Then we would have to go on the run , move from place to place , rely on the people to feed and shelter us .
8 But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task .
9 If we use the criterion invoked for the characteristic activity sense of the progressive , namely that the admissibility of an adverb signals a different sense , then we would have to increase the subcategories of meaning associated with this particular aspectual form of the verb .
10 He was n't here very much , as you know , but we were looking forward to the end of his army service and then we would have settled here . ’
11 Said Bennett : ‘ If there was any repetition of an incident similar to the one involving Devon Malcolm ( at Jamshedpur ) then we would have to consider the position very seriously as to what action we took next . ’
12 Company secretary Philip Potts said : ‘ If we are going to bring the sale back to Newmarket , then we would have to act quickly because time is running out .
13 If we accept it , as many people seem to with enthusiasm , then we would have to include the rats , mice , dogs , cats , and numerous other creatures used in the laboratory , in our outcry over the revelations about the sale of microcephalic infants .
14 But if someone were to claim that it would be a better world without birds and bears , trees and rivers , and the Dani people , then we would have to assume that they were either joking , lying , or crazy .
15 If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’
16 If we consider why people become hypocrites — as far as I know , no one is ever born one — then we would have to suggest a variety of motives .
17 If they were ever to be revealed , then we would have a much more complete picture of Shostakovich the man .
18 The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter .
19 Er and I would guess then we would have to switch it to a , a Saturday .
20 After we 'd been happy , then we would have hated one another .
21 there are times when we think that if we really had faith , if we really believed , if we were true Christians then we would have this peace and serenity about us .
22 And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim .
23 But we could find that all of them were worth doing and then we would have to consider comparative advantages .
24 Suppose no real dates were available , as with our older eras , then we would have to recognise it by the phenomena of organic evolution .
25 The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent .
26 I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that .
27 But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started .
28 Between there and the A fifty nine to the east , we would have one single er arrow or triangle and then we would have another arrow or triangle between the A sixty one and the A fifty nine to the west of Harrogate and similarly another arrow between the A fifty nine and the A sixty one south of the A fifty nine , down to A sixty one south of Harrogate .
29 And then we would have to have another think
30 If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good .
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