Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] if " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 7 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The matter would have been resolved if the taxpayer had appealed , but he was not obliged to do so . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was a kind of tension that perhaps could have been alleviated if they had a couple more people with them , ’ he says . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | How would sectarian bitterness have been eroded if the workers had been excluded from the Labour movement ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I mean it could have been done if we 'd got a go-ahead . |
| 21 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 22 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 23 | Many of these deaths could have been prevented if the disease had been discovered earlier . |
| 24 | Many of these deaths could have been prevented if the disease had been discovered earlier . |
| 25 | The court heard that little Harry 's death could have been prevented if social workers had not overruled detectives . |
| 26 | Many of these could have been prevented if the right measures were available and used correctly . ’ |
| 27 | It 's the car that would have been built if production had continued . |
| 28 | Mr Bates said permission would have been sought if a close-up head shot or a quote from an individual was used . |
| 29 | And that is just the kind of order , it seems to me , which ought to have been granted if the plaintiffs ' contentions are correct . |
| 30 | In the short term , Mr Lamont may be the winner by saving on the tax relief that would have been granted if drilling costs were still available for offsetting against PRT . |