Example sentences of "if [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If everyone had identical tastes and endowments , then many public finance questions would lose their significance , and this is particularly true of the behaviour of the state . |
2 | If I had flipping cameras round me all the time I 'd tell them where to go . |
3 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
4 | Phillis agreed , if she had small idea of ‘ a rum fellow ’ . |
5 | ‘ I never even asked if you had other plans for tonight , ’ she said . |
6 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
7 | If you had interpersonal skill down for everybody , cos we all need to have that . |
8 | ‘ If you had continuous music , it would be like keeping the pubs open all day , ’ he was told , which Benn summarized as ‘ a real BBC view that it is bad to give the people what they want . ’ |
9 | If you had complete access to the human body could you cut one out and examine it ? |
10 | ‘ Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’ |
11 | Yeah , you say that , but you know , your , if you had underarm hair , no one would say hmm , that man 's got underarm hair I mean , it 's quite alright , but for women to have underarm hair , it 's just not . |
12 | Even if you had different views , you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority . |
13 | It was always worse going down , and spiral stairs were the very devil in the dark if you had big feet . |
14 | ‘ Or would be if you had white hair and put on a bit of weight . |
15 | I would n't be surprised if we had sit-down protests or boycotting of home games . |
16 | We could all be happy , too , if we had audiences , if we had private tutors nodding and smiling and ticking our work . |
17 | The hon. Gentleman has told the House that , if we had proportional representation for councils , we would not have extreme Labour councils and that , somehow , the more widespread distribution of seats would stop that happening . |
18 | If we had proportional representation , the Conservative party would find itself with rather more influence in a Parliament in Scotland than it has here . |
19 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
20 | If we had superhuman reactions then perhaps we could manage with a rigid pole , for we would then be fast enough to ease off when the fish made a sudden plunge . |
21 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
22 | If we had cold weather credits the children could play in the bedroom and have more space . ’ |
23 | If if we had overseas students , you know er somebody from Zambia or What er people Afro Asians or in Indonesians or something like . |
24 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
25 | Why otherwise would the right hon. Member for Chesterfield feel the need to table such a motion and why would 24 other Members sign it , if they had real confidence in what they were being told by the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen and agreed with them ? |
26 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
27 | If they had perfect information , the new equilibrium values would be established immediately ; unfortunately , information is far from perfect — there is ignorance and uncertainty instead . |
28 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
29 | For example , fire risk clients could be sustained at home if they had 24-hour-a-day surveillance . |
30 | But , as it happened , some of those islands , particularly if they had native people on them , already had pigs too , too — sometimes the small Sulawesi ones . |