Example sentences of "if we have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
2 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
3 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
4 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
5 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
6 | The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them . |