Example sentences of "if his [noun sg] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are waiting for a kidney donor and time is running out fast ; I wonder if his faith has been weakened or strengthened . |
| 2 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 3 | If his achievement had been consolidated , a new and formidable political and military order might have been established which could have proved resilient to subsequent Mercian attack . |
| 4 | And it was desirable , or would have been , if his style had been less intimidating , if the proposed freedom had offered a colour , light or warmth to compensate for astral and angelic voices . |
| 5 | Yeah I get I mean I get the impression if you 're thinking about you know , the thefts from the people , I mean a lot of the time is the guy who 's visiting the prostitute , does n't report to us if his wallet 's been stolen , for the simple fact he was visiting a prostitute . |
| 6 | Yet if his character had been different he would have attracted an ordinary-looking girl . |
| 7 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 8 | If his father had been a hardnose Republican , he had been a very strange one , for the cash side of the firm , the accountancy , was run by a level-headed Protestant called Tom Holdfast , and a couple of the men were also Protestants . |
| 9 | A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance . |
| 10 | The judge told him that the sentence would have been longer if his victim had been permanently scarred . |
| 11 | Even a prince whose parentage was known could not be certain of succeeding his father , especially if his mother had been discarded from the royal bed . |
| 12 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 13 | He spoke as if his son had been ill . |
| 14 | If a judge has slept badly , has had an indigestible breakfast , tripped over the cat , has been roundly abused by his wife and scolded by his children , or if his mind has been distracted by the children 's school reports , a narrow defeat at a curling match or whatever , he may be temporarily off form . |