Example sentences of "if they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman catholic hierarchy declared that they had no opposition to this particular change , but one wonders how the vote would have gone if they had . |
| 2 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 3 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 4 | When he repeated the text ( which he did frequently ) , ‘ And in the morning ’ would boom suddenly and dozy members of the congregation twitched , wondering if they had missed something . |
| 5 | ‘ If they had , the troopers would have had their heads off . ’ |
| 6 | If they had said this about the Paris workmen , Louis would still be on the throne … |
| 7 | The back bends could be more versatile if they had flatter carvers , with more radius in the stem . |
| 8 | If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem . |
| 9 | As with the highly misleading phrase Stavrogin 's Confession , critics and commentators behave as if they had got into a huddle . |
| 10 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 11 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 12 | Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them . |
| 13 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | In their defence , administration officials reply that if they had used more force — for example , to block a third road used by Noriega 's reinforcements -there would have been an unacceptable risk to American troops and Panamanian civilians . |
| 15 | THE VERY first line of Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? - ‘ What a dump ! ’ — is spoken by the play 's feminine protagonist in a parody of the classic Bette Davis manner : an ( imaginary ) cigarette held imperiously at eye-level , eyes blazing like the headlamps of an automobile , bee-sting lips enunciating each word ( including the ‘ a ’ ) for absolutely maximum effect , almost as if they had been snipped out of a newspaper headline by a writer of anonymous letters . |
| 16 | It would have been an injustice if they had taken it away from me . ’ |
| 17 | Roslavl' officials would have lain quieter in their beds at night if they had bothered to read Maxim Gorky 's book On the Russian Peasantry published that same year . |
| 18 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 19 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 20 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 21 | If they had to stay they moved about the place like shadows . |
| 22 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 23 | As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested . |
| 24 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 25 | If they had a communicable disease and it entailed investigating the vagina to find out , then I suppose the doctor is entitled to do that . |
| 26 | You might also ask them if they had a big hi-jacking at the end of May . |
| 27 | The men in the group will have to cope with this sudden change of plan as if they had known about it all along . |
| 28 | Perhaps , too , if they had known about his ‘ tastes ’ , his friends would have been less puzzled by two of his most mysterious personality traits : his delight in verbal bullying , of students or intellectual opponents , and his apparently cheerful domestic enslavement to Mrs Moore . |
| 29 | If they had any understanding or decency in them , they 'd die and leave you in peace . |
| 30 | They have relied upon the ideas of novelists and playwrights with no deep interest in cinema , or the work of second-raters who might have produced something good if they had worked within a more stimulating environment , but never had the chance . |