Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't .
2 If only if I had that ability !
3 All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 .
4 Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more .
5 So if we had two N A two S O four , that would be two times N A two you 've got four N As and two times the S O four .
6 Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth .
7 You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages .
8 Okay so I , what I 'd like you to do now is both write down if you had three pound sixty a week , how much would you spend on sweets , on presents , on stationery and how much would save
9 ‘ Would you like me more if I had some schooling , Seb ?
10 ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’
11 As I left , if you remember , you were kind enough to invite me to get in touch with you at once if I had any problems , and as soon as we were outside I suggested to the young man that I should indeed wait and continue our talk at some later point in the morning .
12 Police issued a photograph of little Gareth and appealed to the public to contact them urgently if they had any information .
13 ‘ Just keeping a general eye on you , trying to find out if you had any friends or contacts in Venice . ’
14 No well if you had ten pounds shared between a hundred of us we 'd all get the same amount if we had one pound shared between ten of us .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles .
18 So ev even if you had six children , you 'd still allowed , still only get seven ninety five ?
19 Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’
20 Even if you had any grievance against your employee , it did n't stand .
21 Even if you had different views , you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority .
22 The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover .
23 The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government .
24 But for Miss Mates the ‘ really truly ’ was the icing on the cake , even if she had more doubts about Sally-Anne 's stamina than her missing references .
25 I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head .
26 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 .
27 Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go .
28 At least , at least if I had another job you see and er well I 'm taking home two hundred odd two hundred pound a week .
29 All the servants in the Square knew one another ; and Nellie , the cook that worked with me , knew Lottie — Clive Bell 's cook ; she was very friendly with her ; and we used to go over there if they had any luncheons .
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