Sentence examples for would have contaminated from inspiring English sources

By then traces of brain material would have contaminated the butchers' knives, hands, clothes, the wiping cloths, the cutting block and other parts of the carcass.

The group said the projects together would have contaminated the surroundings with chemicals, and 2,700 tons of sulfur and 130,000 tons of toxic ash would have been spewed into the environment.

In this case the source of the As is not a standard pollution where industrial wastes or agricultural releases would have contaminated the environment, the man-made changes to the local hydrography are simply helping to dissolve As which is naturally present in the underground aquifers – and thus exacerbating its release in the water that is being pumped by users.

If the oil had flowed into the river, where our lilies grow, it would have contaminated one of our state treasures.

Had we aimed to cover all known motifs we would have contaminated the filtered set with a large number of false positives.

In fact, several authors noted that the introduction of chemicals to agricultural practices was a recent phenomenon in their study areas (De Michele et al. 1996; Liou et al. 1997; Tanner et al. 1989) and doubted that the period when pesticides may have contaminated well water would have been relevant to initiation of disease among the subjects they studied.

Psittacosis seemed to have contaminated the whole building.

Germs from that letter could have contaminated other mail.

But the authorities say investigators may have contaminated the evidence.

Poorly soldered, the authors argued, the tins' food contents would have been contaminated with lead and would have poisoned the crewmen, an idea that has since achieved widespread acceptance.

"The oil would have been contaminated with radioactivity without a doubt because you're talking about basically putting the explosions in the places where the oil sands are in order to transfer the heat directly to the oil sands".