Example sentences of "if we [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's right , ’ replied the other Commando , ‘ If we had been screwed down by these Nazi bastards for four years , we would be doing more than pinching their boots . ’ |
| 2 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 3 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 4 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 5 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 6 | The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman . |
| 7 | They were considered lawful game for these men as if we had been conquered . |
| 8 | ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started . |
| 9 | We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’ |
| 10 | if we had been strangers . |
| 11 | If we had been aware of the remarks , I suppose it might have been better not to have made the appointment . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches . |
| 14 | If we had been alone , he would have complained bitterly about the hotel . |
| 15 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 16 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |
| 17 | ‘ What if we had been bad people ? ’ they kept asking . |
| 18 | QUOTE : ONE JUST wondered if we had been provided with all the changes of the new laws relating to lbws . |
| 19 | Even if the courts purported only to be concerned with the fairness of the process of policy making and not with the substance of the policies made , it is very difficult to draw a sharp distinction between process and substance : complaints about process are usually , at bottom , complaints about substance — ‘ if we had been treated fairly , the outcome would have been different ’ . |
| 20 | Well , if we had been a little more realistic , we would have included another item in the expenditure side — wasted time , which some of you may have included under the heading private study ! |
| 21 | We would n't have found it difficult to reconstruct the exchange even if we had been too far away to hear what was said . |
| 22 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 23 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 24 | ‘ IN APRIL 1992 , a researcher from the BBC 's dramatised documentary programme ‘ 999 ’ contacted our Community Education Department asking if we had been involved in any unusual incident where rescues had been carried out . |
| 25 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 26 | If we had been asked , at the issue desk , whether we wanted to return separately , then I could understand it ; but we were NOT ASKED . |
| 27 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 28 | 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 ' . |
| 29 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 30 | If we had been the attacking team we would have been wanting that try . ’ |