Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] have be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 2 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 3 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 4 | Thus , in Overend & Gurney Lord Hatherley stated that the directors would have been liable if there had been any ‘ undue neglect of any circumstance or transaction which ought to have been inquired into ’ . |
| 5 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |