Sentence examples for it would possess from inspiring English sources

If it were real, as it might be if it were the founder of a lineage of taxonomic classes, it would possess, as its inner Bauplan, an analog of an Ur-L-system from which could be derived, by transformation of that system's rule, numerous other transformational rules.

For it would possess modes or properties other than relations of distance.

Assuming by contradiction that the class ON of all ordinals could be linearly ordered, he observed that then ON itself would be well-ordered and it would possess an ordinal Ω ∈ ON.

According to Weyl, the metric field does not cease to exist in a world devoid of matter but is in a state of rest: As a rest field it would possess the property of metric homogeneity; the mutual orientations of the orthogonal groups characterizing the Pythagorean-Riemannian nature of the metric everywhere would not differ from point to point.

Indeed, in a second letter to Dedekind of August 31, 1899 Cantor pointed out another problem, involving the notion of the cardinal number and implying that one cannot consistently think of the "the set of all conceivable sets", say M. Were M a genuine set, then it would possess a cardinal number m, which would be the maximum cardinal number.

I tightly wrapped each cylinder in plastic wrap so that when it was chilled it would possess a neat circular cross section.

Indeed, his 2002 memoir, Worth the Fighting For, describes adopting the hero of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan, as his role model at 13 ("... aspiring to Jordan's courage and nobility and certain I would possess it someday"...)...

"And once it started moving on two legs while on the ground, it would have possessed all of the advantages and disadvantages that this new style of terrestrial locomotion conferred" (p. 115).

If a sulfur-metabolizing ectoplasmic alien were to be found in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri, say, there's a good chance that it, too, would possess autoregulatory loops for resisting changes in its bodily functions.

Is he saying that love is a sort of Swiss Army knife of the virtues: if you had it, you would possess all the moral tools you need?

AV piles up even more votes against a party when it is unpopular, and would possess an anti-Tory bias if Labour and Liberal Democrat votes proved more interchangeable.