Example sentences of "if [pron] have [be] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 2 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 3 | If you have been in continuous legal employment , the requirement to serve a Training Contract [ page 6 ] may be waived , but you would have to complete the Professional Skills Course , after completing the Legal Practice Course . |
| 4 | Well yes you , you , you 've got two , one is you 've got erm the rural poor who will provide a labour force in the countryside for rich peasants and you 've , because you have got a labour market and because there are no limits on mobility , then presumably there will be some poor peasants who will decide no I 'll get out , I 'll industry 's going to get going , I will be able to earn more money in a town , or sons would go off and , and so , so there should be , you should provide a , have a supply of labour , whereas if you 've got everybody , if everybody had been in middle peasant status erm there would have been no incentive to do that because everybody would have been self sufficient within the countryside . |
| 5 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |