Sentence examples for past conditional from inspiring English sources

It's a past conditional about the future.

The past conditional, by the way, is a tense of which my brother is highly suspicious.

They now see things almost exclusively in the past tense or rather the past conditional, as there is a bittersweet "if only" quality to their musings.

His autobiography through 1931 appeared as Present Indicative (1937) and was extended through his wartime years in Future Indefinite (1954); a third volume, Past Conditional, was incomplete at his death.

Yet he has already explained that two of the quartet are dead, and as if suddenly realising this himself, he readjusts and the sentence resolves itself in a "possible tense", the past conditional: "... you would have said that, as human affairs go, we were an extraordinarily safe castle".

A natural generalization of the ARCH (Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic) process introduced in Engle (1982) to allow for past conditional variances in the current conditional variance equation is proposed.

Without the location and date on a snapshot the facts of the past seemed conditional.

It's a sort of past future conditional, if that makes any sense.

Netanyahu has in the past given conditional backing to two states.

Its key features are to allow multi-cycle behavior, time shift operations in the past or future, conditional matching, repetition of sequences, and restrictions over sequences.

While Mr. Thornhill, the D.E.A. agent, veered among the past, present and conditional tenses in discussing the nasty life of Mexico's most-wanted felon, he was happy to propose an epitaph on his presumed death.