Example sentences of "[that] if [pron] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may feel responsible for adding to the dead person 's problems or may feel that if they had been more alert they would have noticed their friend 's or relative 's distress . |
| 2 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 3 | The description of the facts is somewhat exiguous and I can not help feeling that if they had been fully stated the case would fall to be treated as involving a demand colore officii rather than as supporting the Woolwich principle . |
| 4 | I actually said that there were relatively few anomalies and that if they had been addressed the tax would have found favour . |
| 5 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 6 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 7 | I keep thinking to myself that if somebody had been there I would have managed , but there was n't . |
| 8 | 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 ' . |
| 9 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 10 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 11 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 12 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 13 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 14 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 15 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 16 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no doubt that if he had been fit , he would have played at Colchester . |
| 18 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 19 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 20 | Blake told him that his actions made no sense , and that if he had been genuinely interested in uncovering the mass murderer his methodology would have to change . |
| 21 | Why ca nt they realise for a second that if he had been playing , maybe they would have won all 6 matches and pissed on all of the sides ? |
| 22 | It may be that if he had been actively working for Balston Ltd his activities might have been in breach of his implied duty of fidelity . |
| 23 | Afterwards , Mr Sheridan said that if he had been banned from the picket line , he would ensure that at least 50 to 100 supporters would take his place . |
| 24 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 25 | ‘ Would he have said that if it had been 0–0 ? ’ asked some hard-bitten locals pertinently . |
| 26 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 27 | But Mortimer said that if it had been him he would have hit the roof . ’ |
| 28 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 29 | Earlier Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke admitted that if it had been his decision in 1953 he would have reprieved 19-year-old Bentley from the gallows . |
| 30 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |