Example sentences of "have been [verb] if a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one can vary during the day and acute increases have been found , a better correlation may have been obtained if a serum sample had been taken at more than one occasion from each patient . |
| 2 | Looking back , one can only wonder why no-one suggested easier ways of working , great economies could have been made if a time and motion expert had been employed . |
| 3 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 4 | Fire claimed more than six hundred lives in Britain last year , many may have been saved if a smoke alarm had been fitted . |
| 5 | Mr Bates said permission would have been sought if a close-up head shot or a quote from an individual was used . |
| 6 | It is surely not just and equitable to reduce the damages if the court is satisfied that as severe , or more severe , damage would have been caused if a seat belt had been worn . |
| 7 | The total exposure of the vendors under the warranties and indemnities shall be limited to the consideration paid and ( if higher ) the consideration that would have been paid if a dividend and any other non trading transaction ( e.g. pension fund contributions , compensations for loss of office , etc. ) had not been paid between [ date ] and completion but will not exceed £ [ ] million . |
| 8 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 9 | The fire officer who investigated the blaze said the accident could have been avoided if a safer method of working had been used . |
| 10 | This effect may have been reversed if a larger set of test words had been used . |