Example sentences of "if it [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 2 | Despite its initial plausibility , however , this approach has the main disadvantage that the ultimate end — if it is there at all — tends rather too easily to get lost in the detail of policy . |
| 3 | The report of a nut of Trapa natans , the water chestnut , from Loch Ceann a'Bhaigh , S. Uist ( Heslop Harrison and Blackburn , 1946 ) would , if it is really of post-glacial age , indicate an enormous northward range-extension of Trapa ( see Flenley et al. , 1975 ) and suggest a major climatic warming . |
| 4 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 5 | If it 's back on , you should put the cam lever to 0 , if it 's forward on 0 , put the cam lever to slip . |
| 6 | erm even if it 's slightly over engineered , |
| 7 | ‘ Even if it 's only for one or two games it 's something I 'll always be able to look back on with pride . ’ |
| 8 | If it 's only in seven what we get is confusion . |
| 9 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 10 | The son of a one-time Manchester United football player and star of too many ordinary British films like Pussycat , Pussycat , I Love You and Yesterday 's Hero , found that moving to America paid off , even if it was only in numerous glossy TV mini-series and soaps like Dallas . |
| 11 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 12 | ‘ Just to demonstrate — if it were ever in any doubt — the total unsuitability of our present situation . |
| 13 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |