Example sentences of "if [pron] has [adv] [been] " in BNC.

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1 " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship .
2 If she has always been an outgoing person , her grief will probably be expressed in painful episodes of weeping , punctuated by the need to ‘ talk it all out ’ over and over again in great detail to you and to other sympathetic relatives and friends , and you will help her a great deal if you are a patient listener .
3 If there has really been no response , wait for a time depending on the vigour and severity of the illness ( see para. 2 ) .
4 If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready .
5 If it has just been created using option 2.1.1 — Create DC , it should now be updated using option 2.1.2 — Update DC and then submitted for assessment using option 2.1.3 , whereupon no further changes will be possible .
6 Contextually , the notional component of the verb is assigned thematic status if it has already been mentioned .
7 Nor , normally , can an accounting reference period be extended if it has already been extended during the previous five years .
8 A node is only added to the OPEN list if it has never been created before .
9 There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not .
10 I wonder if anyone has ever been murdered for a house . ’
11 If what has just been said gives an impression that interviews can be almost infinite in their variety , perhaps this is not a bad thing .
12 Following on from the theory of inflation as a display , it would be interesting to know if anything has ever been observed on the breeding activity of these fish , as an even more outrageous through occurs to me in that maybe the Puffer is one sex of the species exhibiting its mating display .
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