"This appears to be photograph of wounded solders in a hospital. I am going to go ahead and call it as being by Mathew Brady."
Semantic parse:
This usage is spoken: "I'm going to go ahead and call it as being x".
To call something is sports' lingo for what a referee does during a game: to call a foul or to call a play. For example. It has come to mean: to say something about something, to define it.
When looking at a picture or listening to something wherethe person who took the picture or recorded the music or speech, respectively, is not clear, it would be standard AmE spoken English to say: I'm going to call it as being by [some photographer or painter or musician].
This would be used for anything where identifying a person is the issue.
Also, very used: I'm going to call it as I see it. You did steal the money. [Let's say you are having an argument, and you say you did not do something bad. The other person can say that sentence to you.]
Who took the picture? Who is the photography by? Who is the man in the photo? Who is the person recording the message or music?
"I'm going to call it as being John [who took the picture OR made the recording OR who is in the picture].
In this type of case, as being is necessary.
- I'm going to go ahead and call it as being x"
Go ahead implies there has been hesitation until that point in time.
"As being x" is in line with : x is identified as being [some person or thing].
The difference is subtle, but in the first, there is less of an implication that the project is, in fact, currently finished.
If I had worked overtime, I wouldn't have been able to finish my project.
There are a few things going on here that you can glean from this sentence:
- You didn't work overtime.
- You are or were working on some project.
- In a world where you had worked overtime, your project would not be finished by some implied deadline.
The important thing to notice here is that it is not clear if you are still working on the project. You may be making a forecast about whether or not the project will be finished, or you may be making a statement about a past project. It's not clear.
On the other hand:
If I had worked overtime, I wouldn't have been able to have finished my project.
This statement clearly and unambiguously declares that you have finished your project. It places the project as a thing of the past.
Best Answer
Although Wilson's supporters were certainly implying that "There is a way to avoid war" (videlicet, by re-electing Wilson), that isn't what they were actually saying.
The slogan the speaker quotes, "He kept us out of war", was cast in the past tense and thus referred to an eventuality which occurred before it was uttered in the 1916 presidential campaign.
Consequently, the "way in which war was avoided" must also refer to a "past-in-past" eventuality: not something which had to exist (simple past) at the reference time, the summer of 1916, but something which had to have existed (past perfect) before 1916.
The speaker goes on to suggest that the "way" involved ignoring the outcry over the sinking of the Lusitania in May of 1915.