Example sentences of "if it [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fortuna was smiling on me and my haphazard trip felt as if it was taking some kind of shape , a dynamic and a logic of its own .
2 But I mean , if it was costing this sort of money to clear the pipes and so forth out , what I fail to understand is if we 're having a full overhaul of the machine , why this was n't incorporated within it .
3 She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters .
4 Parreira , Gilmar , Calazans and many others maintain the championship has enormous potential if it was to run all year with matches just on Sundays , as in Italy .
5 I paused , to see if it was having any effect .
6 They were often in danger of forgetting that the good news they heard each Sunday had to be applied to everyday life if it was to have any validity .
7 Such case as the defence were able to make depended , like the defence in some of the cases cited above , almost entirely on the defendant 's credibility if it was to have any prospect of success and therefore the misdirection was material .
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