Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases . |
| 2 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 3 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
| 4 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 5 | It would have been helpful if the report 's compilers had included a clinical virologist . |
| 6 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 7 | The opinion in the Reparations Case would not have been possible if the classic rule relating to treaties and third parties had prevailed ; instead the Court considered the nature of the United Nations , the terms of its constitutive treaty , its composition , its functions , its rights and duties . |
| 8 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 9 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 10 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 11 | In such a trial , with the numbers of patients involved , it would have been surprising if a statistically significant effect of Rhus toxicodendron had been demonstrated . |
| 12 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 13 | At this stage it would have been surprising if the theoretical basis for action had been anything other than weak : there was scant Marxist literature in Mexico available in Spanish . |
| 14 | In such a setting , it would not have been surprising if an authentically Benthamite flavour had permeated the debates in Cabinet . |
| 15 | Things would have been pleasanter if the weather had been more summery , but you ca n't have everything and in England one gets accustomed to wet and windy summers . |
| 16 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |
| 17 | It might have been callous if the situation had been different , but it seemed to suit him , too . |
| 18 | While it would have been preferable if the second defendant participated in the trial in Ohio , and that was a consideration to be taken into account on forum conveniens , that factor was insufficient to outweigh the other factors . |
| 19 | One can see what sort of benefit would have been taxable if the courts had decided that a tax charge could arise . |
| 20 | Further work would have been necessary if the following was presented as the unnormalised relation : |
| 21 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 22 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 23 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 24 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |
| 25 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 26 | The McConnells ask how the treatment could have been correct if the patient died . |
| 27 | It would have been nice if the health common services authority had sone so — and created 800 jobs . |
| 28 | ‘ That would have been nice if the customs had asked me to open it . ’ |
| 29 | When dreams are recalled during the day , it would therefore be the most salient points that would be recalled , and the colour detail , which would have been available if the dreamer had been questioned about it on awakening , will have been forgotten . |
| 30 | A pity : I should have been delighted if the two writers , Johnson and Thomson , could achieve a time-machine meeting over the vandalising of Elgin Cathedral . |