Example sentences of "if they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ . |
| 2 | However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts . |
| 3 | Simple , you say , yet how many people force down meals on a diet that they would not dream of choosing if they were not on that diet ? |
| 4 | He may have agreed that if the goods were in existence he would acquire the ownership of them and if they were not in existence he would get nothing but that in either event he would pay the price . |
| 5 | So they , they just had to try and save er from the , the man 's wages and if , and , and if they were n't in work there was very very little money at all . |
| 6 | If they were n't from shame they might have been from Norman Ebbsworth : he finished the visit having hit 38 fours and 18 ‘ brilliant sixers ’ . |
| 7 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 8 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 9 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 10 | If they were ever to be revealed , then we would have a much more complete picture of Shostakovich the man . |
| 11 | Some of the regulations from Brussels would destroy jobs as surely as the policies of the Labour party would if they were ever to be followed . |
| 12 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 13 | I wonder whether the officials of the FAA who saw the RLD representatives were the same people who rejected the NTSB recommendation or , if not , if they were ever in communication with each other on the subject . |
| 14 | And if they were together in Hampton Wick , if they were sitting in the front room of his home in south-west London , then Holly 's company Fiesta would be in the road outside , and the clothes would be smart on his back , and the whisky and water in his hand , and the confidence in his talk . |
| 15 | It was as if they were indeed from another world : a happy world , a free and easy world . |
| 16 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 17 | In addition to fully appreciating the significance and context of much of the material they wanted to use , pupils also intended to create new material themselves by acting roles as if they were there at the time . |
| 18 | A spokesman for a major insurance company commented , ‘ If they were there for only a short time , we could arrange cover , probably without charge . ’ |
| 19 | Cabrera Infante , among others , repeatedly draws attention to his role as author , while the narrator of Alfredo Bryce Echenique 's A World for Julius not only maintains a running dialogue with the reader , but also involves himself with his characters , putting himself in their shoes , addressing them directly as if they were there alongside him and , like a supporter at a sporting event , siding with some against others . |
| 20 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 21 | If they were still with him at the end of tomorrow , he could complain , but not until then . |
| 22 | There was another long banner , duplication of the one in the station , fastened to the side of the train , telling all the passengers what they were going on , if they were still in any doubt . |
| 23 | You said children would receive it if they were still in full time education , higher education |
| 24 | In any case , as Nora said , it 's exactly what they would be doing if they were still in funds ; and now , more than ever , they had to keep up their pretence . |
| 25 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 26 | ‘ Specially if they was all over 'im when they was doin' 'im over . |