Example sentences of "if it had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chimpanzee in the laboratory would be unlikely to solve the box-stick-and-banana problem if it had no initial interest in the bananas . |
| 2 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 3 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 4 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 5 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 6 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 7 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 8 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 9 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 10 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |