Example sentences of "if [noun sg] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thoroughly deserved a draw last night and , if luck had been on their side , they might even have won the game . |
| 2 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 3 | The Inland Revenue were of the view " that if income had been paid away it could not be " relevant income " " because it would not be available for providing a benefit " . |
| 4 | In a case in which a solicitor is privately instructed , the solicitors would , of course , be able to assess the profit costs and if counsel had been engaged then , of course , the brief fee and other fees would have been agreed in advance of the hearing . |
| 5 | ‘ If Faith had been here , ’ Alida Thorne said , biting daintily into a scone , ‘ I would have asked her advice . |
| 6 | But the truth is that if Parliament had been sitting , Mellor would have gone weeks ago . |
| 7 | The fact that revocation thereby deprived the owner of potential development value did not in itself warrant compensation , since if permission had been given the development value would be transferred to the state through the development charge . ) |
| 8 | Clearly , if money had been the kidnappers ’ motive … ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes they are especially tired , as if sleeping had been difficult . |
| 10 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 11 | If Boy had been quiet before , now his quietness had become silence . |
| 12 | If accountability had been enhanced , profligate councillors would have been dismissed from office and replaced by more prudent ones . |
| 13 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 14 | We carefully considered that issue , and I agree that many parents would have been reluctant to allow their children to serve with the armed forces at such a young age if homosexuality had been allowed . |
| 15 | If nature had been modelled by man into productive commodities , man 's own subjectivity had also become reified into a self-identical instrument ; man had become an empty and passive consumer . |
| 16 | Too bad if rain had been forecast . |
| 17 | Thus , relief is given in , for example , Sweden as if tax had been paid in Barbados . |
| 18 | Philippa felt afraid as if war had been declared , suddenly and inappropriately , over the radio . |
| 19 | If speculation had been restricted to these traditional fields then the effect on the overall price level would probably have been relatively insignificant , since the feed-through effects to other goods would have been modest . |
| 20 | The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds . |
| 21 | I think if debate had been continued then many backbench Tory MPs would have expressed their reservations and their concerns about the Government 's proposals . |
| 22 | Since most of the prostatic cancers detected in this study had not metastasised to bone and were well or moderately well differentiated these patients might have suffered if detection had been delayed . |
| 23 | Could see how his father would have resembled Han when he was younger ; as if age had been given him and youth to Han . |
| 24 | If ground had been lost since 1963 , it had been lost before Labour took power . |
| 25 | Even if consideration had been confined to health education as opposed to the broader concept of health promotion , the interventions could readily have been predicted to be of limited value . |
| 26 | If society had been worried about the juvenile delinquency problem of the Fifties , as portrayed in The Wild One , Blackboard Jungle and Rebel Without a Cause , it was now on the precipice of sheer panic about drug-crazed beatniks and hippies whom the establishment and Time regarded with derision , as did its stablemate Life . |
| 27 | If rage had been a fuel , Nora would have been in Waterford within the hour . |
| 28 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
| 29 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 30 | It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it . |