Example sentences of "if it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So if it , if it 's got six volts left , it would n't be dead would it ? |
| 11 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 12 | So if it 's got ten times the voltage , you 'll get ten ten times the current through . |
| 13 | At each mealtime eat enough to satisfy your appetite , even if it means having second helpings of vegetables . |
| 14 | Annabelle 's father insists that any furniture order is delivered the same day , even if it means driving fifty miles and doing the driving and shifting himself . |
| 15 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 16 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |