Example sentences of "if [noun prp] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if Kemp had been held up , for some reason , for even longer than he 'd expected … for considerably longer than he 'd expected … |
| 2 | If Patrick had been expecting the small man to head up Grafton Street , then he was disappointed ; the guide continued on past the bottom of the crowded street , passing Yeates & Son , the opticians with the giant spectacle frame hanging outside the shop , heading into Nassau Street and then he turned right into Dawson Street . |
| 3 | ‘ What would have happened to the world if Churchill had been too scared to be rude to Hitler when he marched into Sarajevo ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Many of your countrymen — no , many of the Germans we have talked about — think Hitler would have stepped back if Churchill had been in power . |
| 5 | Harlow should of applied for a designation a long time ago if Harlow had been designated then surrounding councils would have had to live up their responsibilities to provide adequate sites for travellers which they have not done and successive governments have also failed to apply the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight adequately . |
| 6 | The break-up of the marriage was recorded as taking place in 1943 , ‘ due to the pressures and uncertainties of war ’ — as if Gerald had been at the very least a fighter ace or undercover agent . |
| 7 | Even if Germany had been willing to risk the assembly of major formations of ex-Soviet prisoners , Vlasov had no interest in these ethnically based units . |
| 8 | The question came quietly , almost casually , but if Florrie had been flustered before , now she was shocked . |
| 9 | Oh God , if Valerie had been shocked perhaps she was going too far ! |
| 10 | Blanche asked if Blufton had been at the farewell party the night before . |
| 11 | If Georgina had been here , she would have insisted on having both pages retyped . |
| 12 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 13 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 14 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |
| 15 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 16 | If Scott had been selected because he was second for both the War Office and the Foreign Office , now that the War Office is no longer required , then surely his claim is now reduced . |
| 17 | And if Donal had been there right at that moment she thought she might have thumped him . |
| 18 | Even if Piłsudski had been a socialist , he would still have been an independent Polish socialist in Moscow 's eyes . |
| 19 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 20 | If Gould had been disappointed by Sydney , he was amazed by Adelaide . |
| 21 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 22 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 23 | And Amabel could not stop herself from thinking that this dreadful , dirty town must surely be to blame , that if Gemma had been less stubborn about remaining here , in this dark old manor , standing cheek-by-jowl with the brewery and the foundry and those hundreds and hundreds of unwashed , unlettered people who worked in them , then this tragedy would not have occurred . |
| 24 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 25 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 26 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 27 | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief . |
| 28 | If Moses had been a committee , the Children of Israel would still be in Egypt . |
| 29 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 30 | If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order . |