Example sentences of "if they have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 2 | ( The Bank of England is normally only prepared to buy commercial bills if they have been accepted , i.e. insured against default ( ‘ underwritten ’ ) by an acceptance house or other recognized bank . |
| 3 | Go and see the plans for any new development if they have been lodged as a formal application . |
| 4 | Young people are best able to withstand the danger of alcohol abuse if they have been taught : |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 7 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 10 | If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon . |
| 11 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 12 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 13 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 14 | For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years . |
| 15 | Soldiers never like being asked to do somebody else 's dirty work , especially if they have been called off leave to do it , and are likely to be accused of strike breaking in the process . |
| 16 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 17 | * Horses will usually stand better for the farrier if they have been exercised beforehand , and have already satisfied their need for exercise . |
| 18 | The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy has urged that the SE Regulation only incorporate domestic laws if they have been harmonised , and that tax harmonisation be accelerated . |
| 19 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 20 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 21 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 22 | Conversely , avoid those with a hard chalk in the centre , as these are not ripe and may never ripen if they have been cut too young . |
| 23 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 24 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 25 | ‘ Even if they have been killed in their sleep ? ’ |
| 26 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 27 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 28 | Making the assumption that such men have working-class occupations , Sullivan argues that the housing options for them are very limited after divorce , more limited than for women who , if they have been left as single parents relying upon state benefits for their income , probably will qualify for local authority housing . |
| 29 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
| 30 | Leaving aside publications in parts , which are a special problem , books which should contain advertisements can not be reckoned complete without them , so that , if they have been removed or discarded in a rebinding , the value suffers considerably , even though the text is perfect . |