Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] if " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant .
2 The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man .
3 My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires .
4 and sometimes it 's , it 's , it 's er rather than ring up , write a letter , cos it 's surprising how differently things are treated if it 's in writing .
5 We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute .
6 Indeed , they could have been altered if the Government had not wasted their bargaining power in attempts to defend the indefensible , attack the trivial and obtain the illusory .
7 Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder .
8 Indeed , Croats from western Hercegovina are insulted if you call them Bosnian .
9 In the case of a purchaser issuing quoted shares , the difficulties of knowing whether the 10 per cent threshold is exceeded and whether class tests are appropriate are compounded if the total consideration has not been determined and depends on completion accounts or an earn out .
10 Results of searches are normally dispatched by first-class mail the day they are received if the application is received by first post .
11 For example , the TNCs that control the world grain trade are criticized if they do not sell grain to the Third World , and they are criticized if they do .
12 For example , the TNCs that control the world grain trade are criticized if they do not sell grain to the Third World , and they are criticized if they do .
13 A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’
14 claim for loss of redundancy payment which would have been received if employment had not been terminated because of accident , held to be ‘ naturally and directly ’ arising from the wrong .
15 in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 .
16 The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer .
17 Indeed , the local authority must be the key agency around which services are designed if we are to make the best use not only of social services but also of housing , education and leisure facilities .
18 It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates .
19 The matter would have been resolved if the taxpayer had appealed , but he was not obliged to do so .
20 This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this .
21 However , in practice it appears that the court has a discretion to allow the case to continue as if begun under Ord. 53 provided this will not unfairly deprive the respondent of some protection which would have been enjoyed if the case had been begun under Ord. 53 .
22 Full structural survey fees are included if you buy through us and detailed advice about the property will be prepared for your solicitor to check .
23 This book intentionally sets out to be a companion to art history by cataloguing movements and critics rather than artists , who are included if they have written on art .
24 There was a kind of tension that perhaps could have been alleviated if they had a couple more people with them , ’ he says .
25 I consider that one of the great benefits of public investigation is that not only are the guilty found guilty but the innocent are exonerated if false charges are made .
26 We have first to pretend that , in the event of A wrongfully directing an innocent person X to do something to B 's goods , A is in the position of a finder or custodian of the goods ; and then we must ask ourselves , ‘ Would X 's acts have been excused if these were the facts ? ’
27 How would sectarian bitterness have been eroded if the workers had been excluded from the Labour movement ?
28 US scientists who have analysed the data claim that there is no evidence that temperatures in the lower atmosphere have increased significantly , as could have been expected if global warming were underway .
29 It is absolutely vital that the access notes in the guide are respected if the popular climbing area of Upper Pen Trwyn is not to be lost permanently .
30 In Totem and Taboo , the suggestion was that early groups of men killed the primal father , and in his recapitulation of the argument Freud , in this paper , uses Christianity as evidence that a murder must have been committed if the Son , Christ , had to be a human sacrifice to atone for the sin of men .
  Next page