Example sentences of "if [ex0] have [adv] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There she is ! ’ cried her father , as if there had ever been any doubt about her arrival . |
| 2 | If there had ever been any chance that the Whigs might lose the support of the great mass of the population , the poor , the unpropertied , the emergent working class , that possibility had now gone . |
| 3 | He might add that , if there had ever been any prospect that the class war would provide its movement , that prospect had patently disappeared except , ironically , in those eastern European countries bound to submit to Russian supervision . |
| 4 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 5 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 6 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |