Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 2 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 3 | Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness . |
| 4 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 5 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |