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 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 .
9 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 .
10 She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance .
11 It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’
12 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 .
13 There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something .
14 It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing .
15 Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in .
16 If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error .
21 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 .
22 However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose .
23 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 .
24 That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation .
25 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 ?
26 The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement .
27 It was held that ‘ an act of the parties or … an act of the courts ’ was necessary to revoke consent , and it was suggested that an agreement to separate , particularly if it included a non-molestation clause , would suffice .
28 It 's not a sum you 'd throw away ; but you 'd be happy if it bought a new handbag , a train fare to London or a tankful of petrol .
29 The difficulty , for the commission , is that if it abandoned the present formula , it would face exactly the same problems as national governments , seeking to foster advanced technology but fearful of the temptation of ‘ backing winners ’ .
30 Miss Lynda La Plante , author of Prime Suspect , said she wanted another vote to be held if it emerged the initial ballot was unfair .
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