Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed . |
| 32 | Their Lordships are satisfied with the course taken by the trial judge and are further satisfied that the adverse effect on the jury from the defendant 's point of view was in the end no greater than it would have been if counsel had not made his improper observation . |
| 33 | Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided . |
| 34 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 35 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 36 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . ’ |
| 37 | ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 38 | The court has power to make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the transaction had not been entered into and also , in this case , for protecting the interests of persons who are the victims of the transaction : subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 39 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 40 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 41 | It must have been seventy below zero outside ; Jezrael wondered how much worse it would have been if Mars were at aphelion . |
| 42 | As stated in the prototypical CKR , Sea Waybill Rule 4 provides that the sea waybill will be subject to the application of any international convention or national law if such a source of law is compulsorily applicable or would have been if a bill of lading ‘ or similar document of title ’ had been issued . |
| 43 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 44 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 45 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 46 | At least there were no lights on Kernick Head , which there would have been if the operation was still in progress . |
| 47 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'm quite happy here , ’ and she would have been if only Peony could be pleased . |
| 49 | A pension at the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay is payable for note less than 91 days to the spouse of an officer who dies in service with less than 2 years qualifying service , his widow will receive an annual pension of up to one-half of what his/her pension would have been if he/she had been retired on ill health grounds on the date of his/her death . |
| 50 | In Fig. 10–3 the increase in output is not as great as it would have been if this interest rate effect had not occurred ( in which case the rise in output would be , to , rather than , to ) . |
| 51 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 52 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 53 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 54 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |
| 55 | The court can make such order as it thinks fit to restore the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . |
| 56 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 57 | For it hardly damages the contemporary legislature 's ability to work its will if judges decline to speculate about how to read cloudy rules from the dead past or what the intentions of people very different from contemporary legislators would have been if they had thought about a problem they actually ignored . |
| 58 | Maybe not as hectic as it would have been if the sun had got his hat on . |
| 59 | And dry it would have been if the heavens had n't opened the moment the ship docked and the troops set foot on French soil . |
| 60 | Maybe H R T was helping what her symptoms would have been if she had n't taken them , maybe they were worse because she was , maybe they were the same in spite of it , but I du n no . |