Sentence examples for would have functioned from inspiring English sources

The United States had initially wanted to install a powerful viceroy who would have functioned as a counterpart to the military commander.

"Nothing would have functioned if it hadn't been for her," Linda told me over the phone, "and she always did it when you weren't looking".

He hinted that perhaps Bartimaeus would have functioned better as an explicitly religious organization, like a church, which would have granted members more leeway in whom they chose to live with, than as a condo model.

History The remains of the fourth-largest Roman town in Britain at Wroxeter Roman City, with its recreated townhouse, give a fascinating insight into how a city almost as big as Pompeii would have functioned.

** If "the while" and "now" had been removed from the first passage (which, to be fair, is almost beautiful), the sentence would have functioned in the simple past and would have described a completed act.

But the physical environment is the same, and you can still apply the same general ecological rules, and come out with a workable understanding of how the ecosystem would have functioned.

This would imply that Ash2l would have functions independent of those attributed to Ap2δ.

We reasoned that mutants with a greater increase in Rnr3 abundance in the presence of MMS would have functions specific to repair of MMS damage.

Would Ghosts have functioned just as successfully as a straight documentary?

The "Jeremy" video, coming late in this lineage, would always have functioned as an apologia for teen-age violence.

If he had not acted in October 2008 as he did, Darling asserted, "the bank doors couldn't have opened, cash machines wouldn't have functioned.