Example sentences of "if it [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is a unhelpful because it 's winding that way yet it looks as if it 's winding that way , does n't it ?
2 Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released .
3 At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status .
4 Well I suppose if it was raining one night she might have done .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I paused , to see if it was having any effect .
8 It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs .
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