Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | S : No sitcom ever changed my life — had you said soap opera , it would 've been different . |
| 2 | Yeah I I think , had they given their side of the argument at the onset , then er things would 've been different . |
| 3 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 4 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 5 | At this level of causation the outcome with a different personality at No. 10 would have been different ; but is that historical reality ? |
| 6 | A number of Cabinet colleagues had doubts about all these policies and many would acknowledge that things would have been different without her . |
| 7 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 8 | There would have been different levels of accreditation according to competence , but each level ( Crown , High Court , Appeal Court ) would have been open to both solicitors and barristers . |
| 9 | If that one horse had been Milton , it would have been different , of course . ’ |
| 10 | The two men met in Toledo in the spring of 1087 and with the exception of El Cid 's old enemies , there was general rejoicing from those who believed that if Rodrigo had commanded the army at Sagrajas the outcome would have been different . |
| 11 | This time tomorrow it would be all over , and part of history ; the victors would be celebrating , the losers complaining that had it not been for this and that , they would have won , and the course of history would have been different . |
| 12 | If there had been anything at all in Village still , it would have been different . |
| 13 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
| 14 | ‘ My answer would have been different if Barry had upped and left to another club , but not the way it happened . ’ |
| 15 | If I 'd known you were coming that would have been different ; I mean , bringing company . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems very likely , ’ concludes Mr Irwin , ‘ that had this evidence been available to the defence team at the time of the trial , the outcome would have been different . |
| 17 | It would have been different if the other girls had been in the flat , but they were both away for the weekend . |
| 18 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 19 | This result would have been different during the O'Keeffe frenzy of the mid-Eighties , when the painting would have sold , and probably for more . |
| 20 | And then everything would have been different . |
| 21 | For had the causal factor not been present , everything would have been different . |
| 22 | Even if the courts purported only to be concerned with the fairness of the process of policy making and not with the substance of the policies made , it is very difficult to draw a sharp distinction between process and substance : complaints about process are usually , at bottom , complaints about substance — ‘ if we had been treated fairly , the outcome would have been different ’ . |
| 23 | For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion . |
| 24 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 25 | Perhaps if she had , things would have been different , I do n't know . |
| 26 | It is not that something , anything whatever , would have been different before that instant if the bar had not appeared . |
| 27 | If she had stayed , all would have been different ; it was n't in her stars to stay . |
| 28 | Within the counterculture , moreover , the response to each of the songs would have been different among different subgroups . |
| 29 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 30 | Although the matter was not explored further in evidence , I should be very surprised if the decision to bring these proceedings would have been different had the plaintiff 's attention been drawn formally to its powers under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 . |