Example sentences of "[adv] if it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
3 | I was asked once if it seemed real to me that one day I would be lifeless inside it . |
4 | The matter crosses delicate and dangerous ground , and it might be better for us both if it remained unexplored . ’ |
5 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
6 | The suggestion of fatherly closeness was essential , even if it seemed awkward and difficult to illustrate . |
7 | In my ignorance of electricity I would have believed her , even if it sounded unusual . |
8 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
11 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
12 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
13 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
14 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
15 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
18 | Firstly that Britain would never end immigration altogether ( even if it ended black immigration ) , because if it did so the economy might not survive its periodic labour shortages . |
19 | ‘ Surely the Scapegoat , even if it broke free , would float . ’ |
20 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |