Example sentences of "if it [be] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is such a failure , why have we committed £183 million ? |
| 2 | You say all the other girls are going , and if it 's such a bargain as you say , then I do n't see why not . |
| 3 | And if it 's all a mistake , there 'll be no harm done and no shooting . |
| 4 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 5 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |