Example sentences of "if they have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 2 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 3 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 4 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 5 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 6 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 7 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 8 | If they had been beaten in a fight , he would give them a good hiding and send them back out to do the job properly . |
| 9 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 10 | Mosley 's later fascist ideas on government owed much to Lloyd George 's wartime reforms of the administrative structure , even if they had been devised in a democratic framework . |
| 11 | These smaller dunes were distinct from the level ground on which they stood , as if they had been tipped in discrete heaps by the workmen 's lorry . |
| 12 | But , while the main survey showed that men in general tended to be better informed about credit than women , that difference was too small to suggest that Asian women would have given a very different impression if they had been included in the groups . |
| 13 | The land that formed the estate and the acre John owned in the city centre are now important parts of Sydney and if they had been retained in Piper ownership until developed , his descendants could have been fabulously rich . |
| 14 | It is asking readers to say if they have been misrepresented in a programme , to ‘ expose the tricks and deception used by TV to deliberately mislead people ’ . |
| 15 | I prefer to rinse the olives well if they have been bottled in brine and then to toss them in a little olive oil and leave for an hour or two before serving . |
| 16 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 17 | ‘ Even if they have been killed in their sleep ? ’ |
| 18 | The sole trader or partner pays income tax under Schedule D ( subject to allowances ) on all profits , even if they have been reinvested in the enterprise . |
| 19 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 20 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 21 | At a later stage one might , for some reason , want to prevent the other side using reports disclosed to them voluntarily as part of their case , and if they have been put in the wrong part of the list of documents the right to do so will have been lost . |