Example sentences of "[adj] if it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 2 | No company can call itself truly global if it neglects such potential customers . |
| 3 | Sorry if it sounds dumb . |
| 4 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 5 | This discussion will be even more urgent if it becomes common for criminal proceedings to arise from road traffic accidents . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |
| 7 | ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’ |
| 8 | My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week ! |
| 9 | Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it . |
| 10 | I 'm not sure if it has frilly paid the Ministry for the land . |
| 11 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 12 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 13 | " An experience is rhythmic if it contains any one of these components . |
| 14 | This got a £10 reward with £40 more if it proves successful . |
| 15 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 16 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 17 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 18 | Symphony is such an old program that I 'd be surprised if it has any bugs in it . |
| 19 | A fuite en avant might be tempting if it became feasible . |