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Had and situation
Had the club still been in Administration by the 3 June then Wrexham would have automatically been expelled from the League because of their financial situation.
Ellison expressed his sadness over the unnecessary death of Mayer saying " Had there been a scintilla of compassion, rather than macho posturing, in any of the authorities handling the situation, it need not have ended as it did.
Had he remained, Tochinishiki would have had to become a fifth active yokozuna, an unprecedented situation.

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 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 and reversed
: Everyone knows the adage ... Had Bonaparte been a Latin scholar he would probably have reversed it and said, Si vis bellum para pacem.

Had and had
Had he pled guilty to first-degree murder, Alford would have had the possibility of a life sentence, but avoided the death penalty.
In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.
This opposition must be put in context with the second option offered by the majority opinion, which allowed that the defendant had the option of remaining silent, saying: " Had he wanted to remain silent, he could have said nothing in response or unambiguously invoked his Miranda rights, ending the interrogation ".
Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).
Had the fever and had it bad.
Had the convention been held in the spring, when the economic downturn led to a string of Whig victories, Clay would have had much greater support.
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.
Had they won the Atlantic Division title, they would have had home-ice advantage in the first round.
An early example is If It Had Happened Otherwise ( 1931 ) which features a contribution by Winston Churchill who examined what would have happened had Robert E. Lee won at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Had proof been found, SRA would have represented the first occasion where an organized and secret criminal activity had been discovered by mental health professionals.
It remained the official airline of Walt Disney World, which even had an Eastern-themed ride at its park ( If You Had Wings in Tomorrowland where Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin is currently located ), until its contracting route network forced Disney to switch to Delta shortly before Eastern's 1989 bankruptcy filing.
Had Hamilcar suffered a decisive defeat, casualties and prisoners would have diminished their numbers and Carthage would have had an excuse not to pay anything.
In June 1778 " By the ill conduct of his wife found it necessary to send her into Wales in order to work a reformation on her ", the cause of this appears to have been that Jane Nash " Had imposed two spurious children on him as his and her own, notwithstanding she had then never had any child " and she had contracted several debts unknown to her husband, including one for milliners ' bills of £ 300.
Had the French prevailed the Pragmatic Army would have had to surrender or starve and the King of Great Britain, George II, would have fallen prisoner to Louis XV.
Had the battle started earlier that day when Napoleon had fresher troops and more time, Lützen could well have become a second Austerlitz.
" Never Had a Dream Come True " had marked a more mature direction for the group whilst still retaining their pop sensibilities, a direction which continued into their third studio album, Sunshine.
John Baker has described them as " perhaps the single most influential series of named reports ", and even Francis Bacon, Coke's rival, wrote praisingly of them, saying " Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports ( which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases ), for the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time ".
Had the Allied commander realised that Luxembourg had split his army in two, he might have overwhelmed the isolated French left before the right came into position, but he did not.
Fontaines was killed in the battle ; the duke of Enghien is reported to have said, " Had I not won the day I wish I had died like him.

Had and for
Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??
'" To this R. Abbahu replied, " Had the Bible said ' for joy ', it would mean as thou sayest, but since it says ' with joy ', it means that we shall make bottles of thy hide and fill them with water " ( Suk.
Had it not been for the strike that ended the season, they may have broken their own season attendance record, as they were on a pace to do just that.
Verbs can also be marked for both mood and tense together, such as the present subjunctive ( So be it ) and the past subjuncitve ( Were it so ), or all three, such as the past perfect subjunctive ( Had it been so ).
... 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.
Paisley concluded that " Whitacre's fraud case was minuscule as compared to the ADM case Whitacre cooperated with .” " Had it not been for the fraud conviction ," Paisley said, " he would be a national hero.
From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.
Had Prometheus not provoked Zeus's wrath ( 44 – 47 ), " you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working ; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste.
Had it not been for shipwrecked islanders who took refuge in the Philippines, Europeans likely would not have found Palau until much later.
Had it not been for the exercise by the United States of the police power in her interest, her connection with the Isthmus would have been sundered long ago.
Had the series gone on for a fifth season, the story would have continued.
Had Columbia not been destroyed, it would have been fitted with the external airlock / docking adapter for STS-118, an International Space Station assembly mission, originally planned for November 2003.
Had the planned STS-62-A mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1986 for the United States Department of Defense gone ahead, Discovery would have flown it.
Had it not been for Britain, independence would still have been a dream today in Vanuatu.
Arrangements and orchestrations on " It Had to Be You ", " Where or When ", " I Could Write a Book ", and " But Not for Me " are by Connick and Shaiman.

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