Example sentences of "if it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commitment to a learning theory which explained all crime clearly required the specification of empirically identifiable learning processes if it was to progress beyond the simple assertion that crime is learned . |
| 2 | Misery was always so much more manageable if it was poured into a friend 's sympathetic ear . |
| 3 | This kitchen extension is an excellent example of how it should be done : it looks as if it was built at the same time as the rest of the house |
| 4 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 6 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 7 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 8 | ‘ They write this stuff for office workers , ’ Carmichael complains , peering at the newsprint as if it was written in a foreign language . |
| 9 | The reviewer accused Allison of ‘ Scraping a little from the edges ’ but still guessed that : ‘ If it was played near a poster of George Michael , it would cause the corners to curl as the paper spontaneously combusted . ’ |
| 10 | I have no detail of what individual Liberal Democrat councillors in Brent did , but , if it was perceived by the electorate to have been wrong , they would have undoubtedly paid the political consequences at the following election . |
| 11 | However it was agreed that the setting up of programmes could bring many benefits to a parish if it was seen as a partnership between priests and people . |
| 12 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon believed the clawback clause would be changed if it was seen as an obstacle to striking a deal . |
| 13 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said he believed the clawback clause would be changed if it was seen as an obstacle to a deal . |
| 14 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
| 15 | It costs £100000 a minute to produce top quality graphics , on a computer system costing £10 million , so the people paying do not want something that looks as if it was shot with a camera for a few thousand pounds . |
| 16 | ‘ How did Lord Wittisham happen to have atropine with him , if it was done on the spur of the moment ? ’ |
| 17 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 18 | One might ( perhaps ) be able to teach a dolphin to peel a banana , but only if it was incorporated into a sequence of actions required to achieve some goal considered meaningful to the mind of the dolphin — food , affection , play or whatever ! |
| 19 | The American film-maker Maya Deren says somewhere that ‘ response should always precede analysis ’ , a remark which sounds as if it was made as an artist 's challenge to academic dryness and formalism . |
| 20 | It was a hundred almost of the grand stature of that which set up the historic victory here over West Indies a year ago , even if it was reached with a thick edge . |
| 21 | As children with diffuse chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction frequently vomit , we have investigated gastric electrical control activity as detected by the non-invasive technique of surface electrogastrography in the fasting state in such children to determine if persistently abnormal electrical control activity was present , and if it was related to the underlying pathology of enteric nerves and muscle coats . |
| 22 | The room looks as if it was hit by a howitzer . |
| 23 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 24 | It means inflicting an injury which would be severely punished by a court of law if it was inflicted during an argument . |
| 25 | my Lord if , if if it was , if that was based upon illegal business we would say it was invalid , if it was based at the end of the day upon business that we would of erm permitted to have been written then we would n't have no our defence to it |
| 26 | He declared that peace would only be lasting if it was based on the principle of " no victor , no vanquished " . |
| 27 | If it was said in the hope of catching you out you will at least have demonstrated a calm approach and an ability not to panic . |
| 28 | Then there was the printing works : it had kept pace with the changing times and if it was put on the market there would be plenty of interest . |
| 29 | It was obliged to do so if it was to operate within a competitive market where there were a sufficient number of firms producing the same or a substitutable commodity so that each firm was incapable of influencing the price of the commodity by adjusting its output . |
| 30 | Danforth 's efforts to draw up a compromise bill followed the approval of a Democrat-sponsored civil rights bill by the House of Representatives and a pledge by Bush that he would veto the measure if it was endorsed by the Senate . |