Example sentences of "if they had think " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was therefore no need for them to decide whether and by what powers they could have handled the matter if they had thought that there was any merit in either of them . |
| 2 | At best we might get material from which a more or less dubious inference might be drawn as to what the promoters intended or would have intended if they had thought about the matter , and it would , I think , generally be dangerous to attach weight to what some other members of either House may have said . |
| 3 | Indeed , if they had thought about it , it would have been all too ludicrously reminiscent of being called up before the headmaster . |
| 4 | It presumes , although the parties did not anticipate the contract becoming impossible or illegal to perform , that nevertheless , if they had thought about it , they would have stated that further performance was to be excused . |
| 5 | 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 . |