Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] if it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 More practical guidance , advice and support in those areas would be valuable particularly if it came from within librarianship rather than management science generally .
2 The pure flame of radical Christianity , we might say with the example of the Titfords before us , would be lucky indeed if it burned brightly for as many as three generations .
3 Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him .
4 Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth .
5 It er it 'd be handy actually if it generated an error when it did that .
6 You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’
7 ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process .
8 That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation .
9 General Leclerc , as a soldier , was not , at least not to begin with , and believed not only that the reconquest of Tonkin , even in part , was impossible but that a negotiated settlement was essential even if it conceded independence .
10 It would n't be disastrous even if it gave out in mid-field , he adds .
11 Curiously , the clause in Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes was almost certainly a penalty and unenforceable even if it had been properly incorporated ( see paragraph 14–13 below ) .
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