Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed shoe factory , for example , would make a return on capital of around 15% if it sold running shoes for 1,000 roubles a pair . |
| 2 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 3 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 4 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 5 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 6 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 7 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 8 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 9 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 10 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 11 | The government of Taiwan announced on May 11 that the vessel was free to dock in the country but that it would not be allowed to return if it violated international law by making unauthorized broadcasts to the mainland . |
| 12 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 13 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 14 | I hate to think what effect it would have on our deficit if it included realistic costings of the value of their time . |
| 15 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 16 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 17 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 18 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 19 | It had the right to annul the first round of voting , if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities , and to organize new elections within two months . |