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Had and been
Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Had Churchill been returned to office in 1945, it is just possible that Britain, instead of standing fearfully aloof, would have led Europe toward union.
Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.
Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.
Had I been in an all-married section I would have missed this, and I believe that this single aspect has been of great personal value to me ''.
Had Hoijer substituted for his 15 adjectival slots 15 good animal and plant items, his rate of stem replacement would have been lower and the age of Athabascan language separation smaller.
Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.
Had I been there, I, too, in the eyes of most Americans, would have been merely a pawn in the hands of the Communists.
Had Faith Constable's explanation of her confidence, so uninvited, been a little thin??
Had it not been for such private enterprise, diocesan authorities might of course have been goaded into establishing institutions subsidized by diocesan funds and parish collections and staffed by religious as paid employees.
Had they been truly ruthless, the Belgians might have exploited the Congolese without compassion.
`` Had a world war not been in progress, there would never, under any conceivable stretch of the imagination, have been an Allied intervention in North Russia ''.
Had she forgotten she had signed the car away, that whatever they mutually owned had been divided among the children??
Had she been in such a turmoil that this had slipped her mind??
Had there been another `` brain '' ship at the Base at the moment, Helva would have been guided to make the first move.

Had and able
... Had it not been for the ISI's logistic support and supply of a large number of rockets, Hekmatyar's forces would not have been able to target and destroy half of Kabul.
Had its original author, Michael Collins, survived, he might have been able to clarify its actual meaning, but with his assassination in 1922, no major negotiator to the Oath's creation on the Irish side was still alive, available or pro-Treaty.
) Had Charles Martel failed, Henry Hallam argued, there would have been no Charlemagne, no Holy Roman Empire or Papal States ; all these depended upon Charles's containment of Islam from expanding into Europe while the Caliphate was unified and able to mount such a conquest.
Had the name not been preserved, we would not have been able to identify it with certainty with the name that appears in hieroglyphics.
Had he wished to summon Parliament, he would not have been able to appear on the floor of the House of Commons.
Had it not been for this royal appointment, which enabled Velázquez to escape the censorship of the Inquisition, he would not have been able to release his La Venus del espejo ( c. 1644 – 1648, English: Venus at her Mirror ) also known as The Rokeby Venus.
Had Antioch and Edessa not been fighting amongst themselves after the battle, Baldwin may have been able to attack Aleppo ; however, Aleppo and Mosul were soon united under Zengi in 1128.
Had the Civil Administration authorized it or addressed it in any manner, the villagers would have been able to obtain permits for construction.
Had she been able to regain her seniority, she would have been a senior Democrat on the International Relations and Armed Services committees, as well as ranking Democrat on an International Relations subcommittee.
Had the plane stayed airborne for 40 seconds more, it would have been able to reach the runway.
Had his party had only 85 more votes, he would have been able to form a new centre-right government as Prime Minister.
Had he placed a lever collar on this signal as he should have done ( and as Hutchinson should have checked ) then Tinsley would not have been able to pull the signal lever.
Had the Auckland Blues been allowed to represent Auckland, North Harbour, Counties Manukau and Northland, they would have in effect been able to play a team of All Blacks in all but name.
Had the Chinese achieved a breakthrough in the initial stages of their assault, they would have been able to outflank the 1st ROK Division to the west and the U. S. 3rd Infantry Division to the east of 29th Brigade.
Had he been able to repeat this performance in the second round, he would have made the semifinal, but he could not, and ended up in 23rd place.
Had Alexander the Great decided to continue his campaign in India, he may very well have been vanquished by the much more powerful, more able and more technologically advanced army, but it is more likely he would have adopted the weapons and techniques of such a foe to augment and improve his own forces and strategic aimss, as he had done throughout his career.
Had it not been for the combined efforts of Ash and Clair, the Holy Lands would have been destroyed but thanks to Ash's Charizard and Pikachu as well as Clair's Dragonair, it was able to snap out of its rage-induced state and return to normal.
Had March been able to focus on F1, greater success would have been possible.
Had he done so, Glorious might have been able to spot incoming threats, or have been able to either turn and run or fight.
Had the injury occurred a couple of years later he would have been able to have pioneering keyhole surgery, which could potentially have saved his career.
Had they been ruled unparliamentary, Schmidt would not have been able to speak for the rest of the day without permission.
Had he been able to defeat Agha Mohammad Khan, he might have restored his family's dynasty and its good name.
Had Hideyoshi been able to invade China and conquer a large part of it, his plans were to also invade the Philippines and other commercially important islands in the East and South China seas.

Had and escape
Had the tornado abruptly changed direction, the death toll could have been much higher as nearly five miles of traffic and hundreds of people were trapped on the highway with no route of escape.
A clergyman at the time commented: " Had he been the son of a duke, an easier way of escape could have been made for him.

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