Example sentences of "be if [pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 2 | For it hardly damages the contemporary legislature 's ability to work its will if judges decline to speculate about how to read cloudy rules from the dead past or what the intentions of people very different from contemporary legislators would have been if they had thought about a problem they actually ignored . |
| 3 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 4 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 5 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |
| 6 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 7 | Her death was a tragedy , but who knows what kind of disaster that marriage would have been if she 'd lived ? |
| 8 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 9 | As usual , Len had side-tracked himself , but what would his reaction have been if he had satisfied his curiosity and said , ‘ Yes , I have a mother : she is now living alone in a manor house in Northumberland , ’ and had gone on to tell him , why . |
| 10 | Yet there should have been if he had walked across that floor without his boots on . |
| 11 | There was the slightest suspicion of something behind her , up in the cockpit : a whisper of movement — not even that : a sort of parenthesis in the silence where a whisper would have been if anything had made one . |
| 12 | I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed . |
| 13 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 14 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 15 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 16 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 17 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 18 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 19 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 20 | Think how different art history would be if we had had Peter Paul and Helena Rubens , Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso or Barnett and Annalee Newman . |
| 21 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 22 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 23 | Five years you 've been at it now ; you should be a concert pianist , and you would be if you had practised . ’ |
| 24 | Think how irritated you would be if you began reading a story with the opening sentence ‘ They were cooking apples . ’ |
| 25 | Think where you 'd be if you 'd chosen him . ’ |
| 26 | It does n't seem to me from what I read of page thirty one of that inspector 's report that he was in any different position by the absence of the Policy E two than he would be if he 'd got it . |
| 27 | Yeah I realize that but the thing is if we 'd had a phone call to say look , we 're going to be this late , |
| 28 | Well , the only trouble is if you did put that one I must admit . |
| 29 | so see the thing is if you wanted to go , see , that Sunday half way we did did n't we ? , do n't you remember we had to cross the road ? |
| 30 | Well I , the thing is if I 'd had a church se service and all that , you know |