Example sentences of "if they [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 2 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 3 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 4 | She asked him : ‘ What time is it ? ’ as if they had been in the middle of a conversation . |
| 5 | Even those near the edge stand a better chance of survival than if they had been in a solitary nest far away in a place where local foxes can consume everything that is available . |
| 6 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |
| 7 | Tearing into the Instrument , some behave ‘ as if they had been in the schools , where each man had liberty to propose his own Utopia , and to frame commonwealths according to his own fancy … |
| 8 | However , although they were worth less on the open market than if they had been in ‘ good ’ condition , they were still fit for the purpose for which the buyer wanted them ( making into cattle food ) and were still so upon arrival . |
| 9 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 10 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 11 | Publicans whose premises backed on the harbour were interviewed and , over local radio , people were being asked to come forward if they had been in the neighbourhood the night before , especially those who had used the car-park . |
| 12 | Some people can feel very intimidated and experience a temporary crisis of confidence , especially if they have been in employment which is entirely unrelated to nursing . |
| 13 | For example , if they have been in the Chaos terrains of locations 60–63 and a Dwarf character fell into the Nurglesque marshes , one puppet will enact this while another ( preferably an Elf Puppet , to antagonize the Dwarf adventurer ) conducts a running commentary : ‘ Oh look , boys and girls , the stunty 's fallen down . |