Example sentences of "[adv] if it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
2 | Reality 's raw challenge , especially if it engaged muscle and pluck , was his more favoured companion . |
3 | Barak hated violence , especially if it involved guns . |
4 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
5 | Even if it had maggots and things in it and it was all horrible ? ’ |
6 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
7 | Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists . |
8 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
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 | She would stab him to death if he dared bring that hideous hag in here , even if it involved blood spurting over the recently redecorated ceiling . |
11 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
12 | The situation would be different , however , if firm B decided to pay greater dividends than its reported earnings , i.e. if it paid dividends out of retained earnings from previous years . |