Example sentences of "[been] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 2 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 3 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 4 | How minor would it have been if the poor man had died ? |
| 5 | Just think what the reaction might have been if she 's responded by saying she had no plans to quit . |
| 6 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 7 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 8 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 9 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 10 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 11 | Mr Kinnock has been If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? consistently less popular than his party . |
| 12 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 13 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 14 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 15 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 16 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 17 | Over the centuries , Ayrshire 's loss may have been the world 's gain but one must wonder what the effect would have been if some of the intelligent and ambitious people who left had stayed at home . |
| 18 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 19 | Lessingham looked at Hilary and said coolly : ‘ It would have been if there had been the slightest point in it . |
| 20 | Well , you would have been if you 'd come here … |
| 21 | Only 30 people were injured and the resultant fires did n't last for long , so speculation about how many injuries or how much damage there would have been if people had been up and about is pointless . |
| 22 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 23 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 24 | Her death was a tragedy , but who knows what kind of disaster that marriage would have been if she 'd lived ? |
| 25 | Even Tom Fearon , who ought to know how good a rider Harriet had been if anyone did , had said wonderingly and without the slightest intention of double-entendre , ‘ Harriet had a first-class seat . |
| 26 | We wo n't ever know what might have been if the two had met . |
| 27 | As usual , Len had side-tracked himself , but what would his reaction have been if he had satisfied his curiosity and said , ‘ Yes , I have a mother : she is now living alone in a manor house in Northumberland , ’ and had gone on to tell him , why . |
| 28 | At the dinner the topic of conversation came round to a discussion of how historically interesting it would have been if people living in Saxon or medieval England had produced scale models of houses built in those days . |
| 29 | There was the slightest suspicion of something behind her , up in the cockpit : a whisper of movement — not even that : a sort of parenthesis in the silence where a whisper would have been if anything had made one . |
| 30 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |