Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tranmere would have won more comfortably if Aldridge , the League 's leading scorer with 38 goals , had managed to convert a fortuitous penalty , awarded for a handling offence by Butters . |
| 2 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 3 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 4 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 5 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 6 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 7 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 9 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 10 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 11 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 12 | Would this have gone on forever if a grey-eyed inglésa had not stormed into our lives ? ’ |
| 13 | We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . ) |
| 14 | I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves . |
| 15 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |
| 16 | The quarry must needs have ridden steeply uphill if they were to gain the cover of the trees , and he saw that they were not even attempting it , but climbing only very obliquely towards shelter , preferring to gain distance on the level . |
| 17 | But another union blames bad management on Dowty 's part , and says Dowty Fuel Sytems would have shut down anyway if it had n't been sold . |
| 18 | She would have backed out again if the mourners , disturbed by the noise of the door , had n't swivelled round to look at her . |