Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 2 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 3 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |
| 4 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 5 | So if you were going at sixty four , you know , about a millimetre before the sign you have to be going at fifty five a millimetre after the sign er and you can be pulled up by a State Trooper as I was pulled up , quite unjustly I felt . |
| 6 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 7 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 8 | So they stood and their hands clasped at the baggage rack above their heads , and Millet saw the eyes of a fellow traveller flit to the girl 's features as if they were staring at those magazines on the high shelf behind the newsagent 's counter . |
| 9 | sole practitioners would not object to the proposed extra accounting measures if they were aimed at all firms ; |
| 10 | And they 've got , I think the odds are that people are giving more perhaps er and that er , if they were paid at fifty four P per mile and and got how that would affect the churches er contributions they make ? |
| 11 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 12 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 13 | Some collectors used to visit the museum weekly to check up on how the art they lent was being shown , or if it was shown at all ’ , says one long-time curator . |
| 14 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 15 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 16 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 17 | If it was travelling at 20 mph and someone else recklessly drove into it , the aggravated offence would have been committed . |
| 18 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 19 | If it were travelling at any other velocity , it would either move out into deep space , or crash into the Sun , or move into another orbit . |
| 20 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 21 | If he was hurt at all , it was but a minor hurt — he walked where he was led . ’ |
| 22 | Spooks in films could pass unrecognized through airports , and North sometimes gave out instructions that if he was spotted at such-and-such a place , he should not be acknowledged . |
| 23 | There was only one peg that was ice-free and I predicted that if anything was caught at all that peg would be the last to produce . |