Example sentences of "[noun pl] if they had been " in BNC.

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1 This had involved asking about twenty small businesses if they had been assisted by LEDU and what were their attitudes to LEDU .
2 Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development .
3 The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i .
4 These would include claims against the vendor 's professional advisers if they had been negligent in advising on the negotiation of the transaction .
5 He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not .
6 Lord Sands in Murray v IRC at p138 stated : Now , that would be a sound view [ the view that expenses could not be deducted ( author 's insertion ) ] no doubt if any expenses that were incurred before any payment was made to her had been expenses incurred by somebody she had employed to collect the money , because then these expenses would have been her expenses if they had been incurred by someone whom she was free to employ or not to employ .
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