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1. The intervention might have had some chance of success had it been aimed at some isolated groups unsupported by the nation.

2. The author here would in all probability have been more successful if he had put his stories into the form of the novel.

3. If we were to tie ourselves down to only those words that the Anglo-Saxons used, our vocabulary would be poor indeed.

4. The scientists who know better than anyone else what biological weapons will do should they be used in war must resolutely demand their prohibition.

5. There were no voluminous writers. It was not the custom to publish the poems of individual authors separately. Had it been so, very thin volumes would have been the result.

6. Would things have been very different in the end, or very much worse, if the Scandinavians had extended their power up to the borders of Cornwall and Wales in the ninth century, as they did in the eleventh under Canute?

7. The Censor would never have allowed the play to be produced had it not been for the revolution of 1830.

8. Bernard Shaw is often regarded as a disciple of Ibsen whose work would have been altogether different in character, or might not have existed at all, if Ibsen had not led the way.

9. If it were not for this particular complexity, I should not have considered it necessary to preface a history of art with a philosophy of art.

10. Had Livius tried to deny Nero his share in the triumph, Nero's supporters would have tilted the balance against Livius.

11. His poems show great promise; and had he not died at the age of eighteen, it has been thought that he would have been the founder of the new Romantic school of poetry which Coleridge introduced some years later.

12. If a complete list were prepared of the dates at which words were created or borrowed, a picture of the slow and increasing development of our civilization would be unrolled.

13. But these two elements alone could never have produced the Coptic style had not the realist Syrian element also exercised its influence.

14. It may be that Goethe would have left the novel unfinished if he had not conceived an entirely new idea that might give his novel a depth and importance which his original plan had not allowed.

II

15. In these circumstances, if the city were to be closely besieged, there was an excellent chance that the peace party would gain the upperhand and surrender the city to the Romans, especially if they could be led to believe that Scipio and the Romans would spare Carthage ¹⁰ once they had it completely at their mercy.

16. The necessity of thus illustrating Burns' writings was always becoming more and more pressing, as the time of their composition was receding; and it cannot be doubted that in a few more years, when this necessity would become extreme, the possibility of executing the task in a satisfactory manner would have been decided in the negative.

17. The movement would have remained ineffective had it not found an army in the recently developed class of industrial workmen.

18. If you could come back to life two hundred years from now, you would find not only the world and its activities transformed, but also its languages. Among them would be an English language that you would be able to recognize and understand in part, but many of whose words and expressions would be completely strange and mysterious to you until they were explained just as television would be strange to Shakespeare if he were to come back to life today.

19. Had intercourse with Europeans been once fairly established, it were a reasonable presumption that we should have found at least a glass bead, or an instrument of some sort indicative of the fact, especially when we bear in mind that it would be just in such places, where the savages collected around their fires to cook and eat, that such objects might be expected to be broken or lost.

20. Should you deliberately set about trying to «make» the language? I would hardly advise it. People who try too hard often set themselves apart from others and get laughed at. On the other hand, if you should happen to come out with something that other people seem to like, don't be too ashamed of it.

21. The preceding examples, especially the extensions that have had to be given to the «object», should be enough

¹⁰ Carthage [ka:reidg] — Карфаген. 150

to convince the most hardened sceptic, even if there were no other idioms, that it is impossible to explain the structure of English on principles derived from other languages.

22. Sometimes the girl would accept her suitor only on condition that they live with her parents.

23. It has already been pointed out that parallel to the growth in the number and variety of the meanings which many words possess, and that, were it not for this economical device, the vocabulary of Modern English, enormous as it is, would be several times as great. If we were to consider the changes of meaning that have occurred along with the introduction of new terms, the imperfect picture which the mere growth of vocabulary presents would be coloured and shadowed, so that a complete representation of the development of English thought would be provided.

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