Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time . |
| 2 | And if you went to General Accident and looked at their actuarial tables , they might be slightly different to other groups , but in that sense |
| 3 | If you came to this country after 1948 as an adult , your working life still started at 16 , so you will probably have a reduced pension . |
| 4 | If you turned to domestic politics , the news was no better . |
| 5 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 6 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 7 | Parents who requested places on a Kindertransport were warned that orthodox foster homes were not on offer and were asked if they objected to Christian hospitality . |
| 8 | If it came to straightforward riot control , the most appropriate force would probably be the 12,000-strong People 's Police Alert units , under the control of the ministry of the interior . |
| 9 | If it came to constitutional change , he would prefer it to involve the introduction of direct presidential elections — no doubt hoping that the first directly elected president would be none other than himself . |
| 10 | The reply would be satisfactory if it conformed to standard practice . |