Example sentences of "[vb pp] if [art] [noun] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in practice it appears that the court has a discretion to allow the case to continue as if begun under Ord. 53 provided this will not unfairly deprive the respondent of some protection which would have been enjoyed if the case had been begun under Ord. 53 . |
| 2 | This striding away would not have mattered if the Padre had been able to keep up with him … but the Padre could not move unaided . |
| 3 | Witnesses had told the Crown that the least damage that could be expected if the trolleys had been hit would be the severing of air brake pipes , immobilising a train . |
| 4 | How would sectarian bitterness have been eroded if the workers had been excluded from the Labour movement ? |
| 5 | She looked after the car , knowing she had been so absorbed she would never have noticed if the Josephs had been in it . |
| 6 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 7 | Many of these deaths could have been prevented if the disease had been discovered earlier . |
| 8 | Many of these deaths could have been prevented if the disease had been discovered earlier . |
| 9 | With a chairman , two frontbenches and whips , these committees are microcosms of the Commons with no special facilities for fact-finding or for doing anything other than what would normally be done if the bill had been kept on the floor of the House . |
| 10 | She felt as happy about the news as she would have done if the baby had been a future niece or nephew . |
| 11 | They received no damages for the loss of some exceptionally lucrative government dyeing contracts which they would haze secured if the boiler had been delivered on time . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The High Court , or a judge thereof , or a county court , may , on the application by summons of any judgment creditor of a partner , make an order charging that partner 's interest in the partnership property and profits with payment of the amount of the judgment debt and interest thereon , and may by the same or a subsequent order appoint a receiver of that partner 's share of profits ( whether already declared or accruing ) , and of any other money which may be coming to him in respect of the partnership , and direct all accounts and inquiries , and give all other orders and directions which might have been directed or given if the charge had been made in favour of the judgment creditor by the partner , or which the circumstances of the case may require . |
| 13 | In a final report , which has not yet been made public the Atlanta group concludes that seven babies died of deliberate overdoses and that another 2 I deaths could have been avoided if the hospital had been better equipped to spot trouble . |
| 14 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 15 | Two or more maps would be needed if the detail shown is not to get too great to be displayed or absorbed by the user . |
| 16 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 17 | We will have also to change all those things which would not have happened if the election had been delayed , e.g. Mrs Thatcher 's age at election time . |
| 18 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 19 | Coun Cyril Pearson said : ‘ This accident would not have happened if the barriers had been there now . |
| 20 | ‘ It would n't have happened if the prison had been run more efficiently , ’ Fairham snapped . |
| 21 | Megaw LJ 's argument depended on contrasting what would have happened if the auditors had been appointed as arbitrators . |
| 22 | In neither case does a clear picture emerge of the true value of any improvements in relation to the the organisation as a whole , and often the analyst is left with an uncomfortable feeling that more could have been achieved if the situation had been approached more methodically . |
| 23 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 24 | Restorative proctocolectomy was considered to have failed if the pouch had been excised or an ileostomy had not been not closed . |
| 25 | The sum was to cover compensation for the notional difference between the actual cost of the house , and what they would have paid if the defect had been known beforehand — it was not to cover the cost of the repairs . |