Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
2 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
3 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
4 | Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Coun Dennis Howey told the planning committee that if it closed then local butchers and farmers would have to travel to Darlington and York . |
7 | 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 ’ . |