Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps if everybody had a stake in the business , they would work better , ’ said Robyn . |
| 2 | I have nothing against the monarchy , in principle , erm I think that perhaps if we had our own parliament in Scotland and had the Queen as a head of state , as do Australia , Canada , and all the commonwealth countries , that would be fine . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm half inclined to pursue her tomorrow ; perhaps if we had her we would have a few more answers to all this . |
| 4 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 5 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps if they had got at Sir Oswald it would not have been so jolly , ’ Sir Patrick said acidly . |
| 7 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 8 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 9 | Well if we could send that with the amenities and perhaps if they 've got any , we ca n't say that er , I view this as very much , we 've , we 've got a platform here . |
| 10 | One would predict that where a particular sibling is not willing or able to give support they are unlikely to receive it , except perhaps if they have given assistance in the past . |
| 11 | Perhaps if you had a child … ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 13 | So is n't it good for us rather than quibbling , rather than criticizing , and recognizing that we 've all got different abilities and perhaps if you had n't got one of those abilities there , the , the body that it speaks about , you see every part plays a part does n't it on our physical body and so we are in accommodation , we all have a part to play , and that 's the way we , we grow you see and we mature and we become better , able , equipped to go out and tell others , gives us confidence as well if we know what we 're talking about , that way we can learn , so never quibble about assignments and arrangements , never criticize brothers and sisters in the congregation . |
| 14 | they are now , perhaps if you had a word with them |
| 15 | Perhaps if you 've time you could walk over with me . ’ |
| 16 | So you never felt I mean presumably you never felt that yourself and therefore and also perhaps if you 've never come across Fair enough . |
| 17 | Erm perhaps if you 've got a pencil handy here . |
| 18 | Open the door of the wardrobe , put a wrapper over the big one , put it in the back , then sandwich another one , a picture in perhaps if you 've run out of things like that , till you get to the front , close the door , and you 've got it all packed away neat out of the way . |
| 19 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 20 | Less ambitiously , you might ask your employer to agree to repatriate you , together with your family and possessions , free of charge , if your job ends prematurely for any reason , except perhaps if you have been dismissed for misconduct . |
| 21 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 22 | Perhaps if it had n't happened so handily by chance , he would have engineered a meeting . |
| 23 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 24 | Perhaps if I 'd tried one-one-five , or five-five-one … or five-one-one , or five-five-five … |
| 25 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 26 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 27 | But perhaps if I had … ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 29 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 30 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |