Example sentences of "if it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For myself , ’ Mrs Parvis went on , ‘ I 'd have felt more excited like , if it 'd finished lost summer . |
| 2 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 3 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |
| 4 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 5 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 6 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 7 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 8 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 9 | It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling . |
| 10 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 11 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 12 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 13 | If it manages to make that charge stick , it will have got itself a powerful vote-winner . |
| 14 | If it does happen different officers will be used to deal with the two groups , so the cross-fertilisation theory does n't hold water . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I have n't got a grandmother but if I had one I would shoot her in the foot if it meant getting three points . ’ |
| 16 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 17 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |
| 18 | However , given the importance of the mortality record of the children of what we believe to be economically inactive , one parent families , any analysis of health inequalities will be seriously flawed if it fails to include this group . |
| 19 | Where an exclusion clause controlled by the UCTA is specific to a particular liability the effect of the UCTA is either to render the clause unenforceable ( if the UCTA imposes a total ban ) , or ( if the UCTA imposes the requirement of reasonableness ) to render the clause unenforceable if it fails to satisfy that requirement . |
| 20 | The merchant bank or broker will charge a commission for procuring the subscribers and may agree to subscribe itself for the balance if it fails to procure sufficient interest from its clients . |
| 21 | Either it must achieve the reductions it agreed to by using technological means to remove the sulphur from domestic coal , or , if it chooses to see low-sulphur coal being imported , or gas burned in power stations , it must endure reductions in emissions closer to those agreed by West Germany , the Netherlands , France , Belgium and Denmark . ’ |
| 22 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 23 | He added that if Strathclyde PTE did not continue to have the power to assemble a package of services which involved busy services cross-subsidising off-peak ones , the council would have to spend much more money if it wanted to maintain off-peak services . |
| 24 | Complicated when it has to be written down to or detailed where there 's a lot of information to be taken in and it 's a lot easier if it 's done that way because people can refer back to it all the time . |
| 25 | Once again that 's another one which is just a glance at the , at the programme if it 's presented one way and very difficult if it 's presented another way . |
| 26 | Once again that 's another one which is just a glance at the , at the programme if it 's presented one way and very difficult if it 's presented another way . |
| 27 | How would you know if it 's finished one side ? |
| 28 | So if it , if it 's got six volts left , it would n't be dead would it ? |
| 29 | I think a business can hardly fail if it 's got that sort of spirit . |
| 30 | If it 's got another consonant do you know what a consonant is ? |