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Example sentences for "there would have been"

  • If it had been my object to justify the processes themselves as means of investigation, there would have been no need to look far off, or make use of recondite or complicated instances.

  • There would have been a majority of one in the Senate and a tie in the House.

  • There would have been opposition to it, but the weight of public influence, and the majority in both branches of Congress, would have been sure to secure this result.

  • Not caring for her I should have been glad if he had fallen in love with her; there would have been no difficulty, I believe, on her part, and certainly not on mine; but nothing came of it.

  • At Roanne we had a good enough supper, and Moreau, who knew very well that if it had not been for his daughter there would have been no free journey and free supper for him, was delighted when I told him that she kept me good company.

  • But for the publication of these resolutions, there would have been no insurrection.

  • Were the Senates and Executives of the several States chosen as those of the General Government, there would have been as much stability and consistency in their transactions, as in those of the Government of the Union.

  • If he had made himself popular with the English by giving up the Bengalees to extortion and oppression, or if, on the other hand, he had conciliated the Bengalees and alienated the English, there would have been no cause for wonder.

  • If Charles had been the last of his line, there would have been an intelligible reason for putting him to death.

  • There would have been a scuffle; and it might not, under such circumstances, have been in his power, even if it had been in his inclination, to prevent a scuffle from ending in a massacre.

  • Edict of Nantes; if he had reigned ten years longer, there would have been no revival of Romanism.

  • There would have been no Protestant country in Europe, but England, and perhaps Holland.

  • Or even if the popular leaders had been more patient, and waited for their time, and been willing to carry out these reforms constitutionally, there would have been no revolution.

  • Their activity would not have existed: there would have been no life, there would have been nothing.

  • There would have been no keeping of inefficient men in high command; and no efficient one would have been kept out.

  • There would have been no unwise waste of our precious soldiers.

  • There would have been no thought to create it.

  • If she had taken the situation as it was, faced the meaning of it with firm lips and a steady eye, there would have been hope--more, there would have been salvation for her.

  • Under ordinary circumstances, there would have been as many as I said; but I understand that a lot of people attended early Communion at the bishop's service in Maidstone.

  • With passion to lift the scale on to the agate, there would have been a deed worthy of eulogy then!

  • There would have been no necessity for Prussian Cæsarism.

  • There would have been no necessity for vast armaments.

  • If the Greeks had remembered that Zeus was but a name or symbol of the Deity, there would have been no more harm in calling God by that name than by any other" (359).

  • In the first commencement after the Deluge, unless miraculously supplied, there would have been no grain or bread food until time had been allowed for its production.

  • Some of the scenery caught fire, and, but for Duponchel's presence of mind, there would have been a panic and a horrible catastrophe.

  • There would have been a great deal of bloodshed, but the last word would have remained with the Government.

  • There can be no doubt that, had the Soviet taken the lead in the Revolution, there would have been a fierce struggle against it, and the Revolution would have been squashed.

  • Furthermore, there would have been no need for the events of the 27th of August, and those of the 25th of October would have been impossible.

  • And had the Government actually possessed the power, and in full panoply of right and might had been able to assert itself, there would have been no ultimatums either from the Soviet or from the military leaders.

  • Had the circumstances been different, there would have been a tragedy at the expense of his last dollar--and he was rich.


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