Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 3 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 4 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
| 5 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 6 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 7 | She probably would have done if she had been left to her own devices ! |
| 8 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 9 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 10 | Between er , er the best , the best end of the scale ones which I would of thought if they 'd been submitted to something like a general |
| 11 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 12 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 13 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 14 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 15 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 16 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 17 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 18 | The bodice clung to her breasts as if it had been moulded to her , a thin diamanté halter giving an illusion of safety . |
| 19 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 20 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 21 | Nor does the contrary proposition , that the law does not contain the clear meaning if the legislators did not intend it and would have rejected it if it had been brought to their attention . |
| 22 | One excuse given was that the authorities did not want Blake to associate with another spy which would have happened if he had been transferred to Birmingham prison . |
| 23 | A leading surgeon told the inquiry that Martin Robinson , 25 , could have been saved if he had been rushed to a neurosurgical hospital after complaining of severe headaches . |
| 24 | He would have had to herd with less congenial characters than gamblers if he had been sent to The Fleet or the Marshalsea . |
| 25 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 26 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 27 | Now , arriving at his own manor of Kouklia , he recognised as if he had been bred to it the sound and smell and look of each component ; each piece of equipment . |
| 28 | More important , perhaps , he was in normal uniform , which grounded him as surely as if he had been chained to the nearest hangar door . |
| 29 | you know , if if he 'd been left to probably some other doctor he probably would have said , oh you know , you can just have a catheter or something . |