Example sentences of "and if a [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natural selection was a process taking place within the whole breeding population making up the species , and if a division were to occur , the single original population must somehow be split into several distinct subpopulations that did not interbreed . |
| 2 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 3 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 4 | Pauline Hoare knows of women who regularly travel from Kent to Durham to visit their husbands , and if a crime was committed in Scotland it would be normal to find families based in England or Wales having to travel up to Scottish prisons . |
| 5 | Of the smaller works he gave a copy to every family , and if a family was too poor to afford a Bible he gave them one . |
| 6 | And if a yarn was spun , or a general true story that a man had to have his train fare to get to Newark and he had to pay this and that , you could er get a loan on your wages . |