Example sentences of "[adv] if it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 3 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 6 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 7 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 8 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 9 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 10 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 11 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 12 | Firstly that Britain would never end immigration altogether ( even if it ended black immigration ) , because if it did so the economy might not survive its periodic labour shortages . |