Example sentences of "if we had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 2 | QUOTE : ONE JUST wondered if we had been provided with all the changes of the new laws relating to lbws . |
| 3 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 4 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 5 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |