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 . |