Example sentences of "if [art] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 However , Lord Redesdale thought that if the Government ever wanted the larger site , ‘ the truest economy would be to purchase at once the ground about Charles Street .
2 If the person never saw the figure otherwise than as he does now , to say that he interprets what he sees in a certain way may be taken — because of ( 1 ) above — to imply that all seeing involves ( a ) the immediate awareness of something uninterpreted and ( b ) the interpretation of it in the light of past experience .
3 They were all the same , all noise and sparrow shit , and if the man only knew the idiot scene he cut …
4 If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light .
5 It would be helpful if the guidance also mentioned the economic and environmental advantages of ‘ soft ’ sea defences over ‘ hard ’ ones , in many situations .
6 The crazed director had vowed to eat his show if a friend ever raised the money for a particular project .
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