Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strikes ended on Jan. 23 , the day on which the government rushed legislation through the People 's Assembly enshrining the right to strike , but obliging workers to give 15 days ' notice of stoppages , and authorizing the Assembly to suspend a stoppage if it threatened the national interest . |
| 2 | A new drug could become a potential blockbuster if it treated a common ailment and generated $100m-plus in annual sales ( see table ) . |
| 3 | Its leaders knew there was a serious risk of trouble if it took a mass march into Gqozo 's lair . |
| 4 | The procedure , if it followed the usual course , would have been this : two doctors would be taken to see her and would ask her a few questions . |
| 5 | She screwed up her face at the name as if it left a nasty taste in her mouth , adding : ‘ Ca n't abide that man . |
| 6 | In 1976 the general tenor of the Report had gained a general welcome even if it secured no specific action to strengthen local independence . |
| 7 | The Whitbread brewing group was ruffled by stories it would be forced , under US legislation , to sell its US drink importing operations if it continued a trans-Atlantic restaurant build-up . |
| 8 | He had the sort of sensitive nose that made him instantly burst into tears if it got the slightest knock . |
| 9 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON Labour candidate Alan Milburn yesterday said his party would allow £8bn to be spent on council housing if it formed the next government . |
| 11 | The chimpanzee in the laboratory would be unlikely to solve the box-stick-and-banana problem if it had no initial interest in the bananas . |
| 12 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 13 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 14 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 15 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 16 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 17 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 18 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 19 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 20 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 21 | There is little agreement on the ethics of recording without permission in situations like these , but Labov 's general principle seems to offer a sensible guideline ; it is that the researcher should ‘ avoid any act that would be embarrassing to explain if it became a public issue ’ ( Labov 1981 : 33 ) . |
| 22 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 23 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 24 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 25 | In May a former deputy director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said that the USA would be violating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile ( ABM ) Treaty if it deployed a newly-tested missile tracking device as part of its " Star Wars " defence system . |
| 26 | However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose . |
| 27 | In terms of Henry Thornton 's antithesis between reputation and religion and the need to sacrifice the former to the latter if it aided the antislavery cause , Clarkson had sometimes seemed too attached to reputation . |
| 28 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 29 | Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ? |
| 30 | The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement . |