Had Lipscomb become a physician like his father, he would have been the fourth physician in a row along the Lipscomb male line.

Had he lived longer, Howard believes, his character might have enabled him to become a successful king like his father.

Had she lived, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom on the death of her father, and Leopold presumably would have assumed the role later taken by his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, and never been chosen to reign as King of the Belgians.

Had the Roman Rota found in favour of Duarte Nuno, his supporters could have said that the court had determined that Carlos was not Maria Pia ’ s father.

" Had my father known what I was going to do ," the younger McMahon told Sports Illustrated in 1991, " he never would have sold his stock to me.

Miranda also challenges her father when she begs for the life of those on the ship, telling him: " Had I been any great god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere the good ship so have swallowed, and the fraughting souls within her!

Had the Ottoman Empire not been dissolved and succeeded by the Republic of Turkey, he would have become Emperor of the Ottomans and Caliph of Islam as Osman V. He was also known as Sultan Ertugrul II in reference to Ertuğrul, the father of Osman I.

Had Captain Macneill's circumstances been prosperous, this counsel might have been adopted, for the son's promising talents were not unnoticed by his father ; but pecuniary difficulties opposed an unsurmountable obstacle.

Had Paulet's claim been authenticated, he might today be considered the father of liquid-propellant rocketry, rather than Robert H. Goddard, who in 1926, flew a liquid-fueled rocket engine in a test vehicle.

Had it not been for the publication of KR's strikingly candid diaries long after his death, the world would have never known that this most prolific of Grand Dukes, the father of nine children, was bisexual.

Had Landrieu won, he would have been the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father left office in 1978.

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 he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

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 U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

Had I not, with my own eyes, seen myself appear out of the fourth dimension back there in the Twentieth Century, and glide down to my landing-field?

) 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.

Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi, who had suggested the creation of the Committee of Thirteen, later said, " Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860 –' 61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war.

Whitlam maintained that the purpose in moving Fraser's car was to ensure that the Prime Minister was not tipped off by seeing it, stating, " Had I known Mr. Fraser was already there, I would not have set foot in Yarralumla.

Had there been a production limit, the deflation might have been helped somewhat.

Waage has written that, " Had the missing documents been accessible, there seems no doubt they would have shown the extent to which the Oslo process was conducted on Israel's premises, with Norway acting as Israel's helpful errand boy.

Had such a picture as ' Civilization ' been shown to the people of Europe before the war started there would have been no war.

Had she limited her argument to these points instead of conjoining it to an argument about how Shakespeare couldn't have written them, there is little doubt that, instead of being dismissed as a crank and a madwoman, she would be hailed today as the precursor of the New Historicists, and the first to argue that the plays anticipated the political upheavals England experienced in the mid-seventeenth century.

Had there been elevated releases of radioactivity, increased levels of Iodine-131 and Cesium-137 would have been expected to be detected in cattle and goat's milk samples.

Had there been a vote by English MPs only on tuition fees in January 2004, the government would have lost because of a rebellion on their own benches.

Had All-Ireland home rule evolved earlier, there would most likely have been no Easter Rising, no Anglo-Irish War, no independent twenty-six county Free State and no ensuing civil war.

Had that system, of naming ones kids after ones parents been there from the beginning, there would be very few male names in circulation.

However, Had the battle gone in Germany's favour ... there is every reason to believe that the advance would have petered out.

Had there been any nerve fibers or blood vessels, people would bleed whenever they moved their jaws, and movement itself would be too painful.

Had the 70 year old Schreyer won, it would have marked the first time a former governor general had been elected to the Canadian House of Commons ; previously, former Lieutenant Governors had been called to the Senate to sit as party members, and some former Governors General who hailed from the United Kingdom returned there to sit with party affiliations in the House of Lords, sometimes even serving in cabinet.

In addition there are three books about his assassination, one by Mollie Gillen, one by David Hanrahan, and the latest by Andro Linklater entitled Why Spencer Perceval Had To Die.

* Had ye been there – for what could that have done?