Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 2 | If you had been Chief Onlaf , in which order of importance would you have placed the seven requirements for a suitable village site ? |
| 3 | The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman . |
| 4 | ‘ What if we had been bad people ? ’ they kept asking . |
| 5 | The reaction to the discovery , that it would mean that there would be no need of the Icelandic fishing grounds in future , makes it fairly certain that even if there had been accidental sightings of the New World before that date , no systematic attempts had been made to explore it further nor to exploit the resources of the Newfoundland Banks ( 45 , pp.214–16 ) . |
| 6 | Certainly with lower ability children doing oral work and class work that was true , Whether it would be so if there had been practical tasks associated with the French language is another question . |
| 7 | The police officer agreed Anderson would have been charged at that stage if there had been sufficient evidence . |
| 8 | The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex . |
| 9 | If there has been tricky manoeuvres I would have ignored the set course and followed my own , turning a circle if necessary : this was a schooling round , not an attempt to win a rosette . |
| 10 | One aspect of this discretion relates to the time limit for making an application for judicial review under RSC Order 53 : s. 31(6) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 allows the court to refuse leave or to refuse relief if there has been undue delay in making the application and that the granting of relief would , amongst other things , be ‘ detrimental to good administration ’ . |
| 11 | In addition , bail may also be denied if the court thinks it necessary for the defendant 's own protection , if there has been insufficient time to enable the court to obtain enough information to reach a decision , or if the defendant has previously failed to answer to bail . |
| 12 | If there has been previous trading between the same parties it may be possible to establish that the terms are incorporated by a course of dealing . |
| 13 | The requirements for audit of the accounts of nationalized industries are typically found in the Act of nationalization or , if there has been significant reorganization of the industry since then , in the reorganizing Act . |
| 14 | What if they had been English saboteurs , Maclean demanded . |
| 15 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 16 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 17 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 18 | If it 's been re-registered sort of thing , so there 's a big line in cars all . |
| 19 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 20 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |