Example sentences of "if [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this rather delicate visit to John were to be carried out it must be done immediately , before her courage failed . |
| 2 | I wonder if this fundamentally unimportant fact will linger as long in any mention of her as did the pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘ The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book ’ some 30 years ago . |
| 3 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 4 | If some sexually frustrated dickhead wants to waste twelve quid on this tripe that 's his problem , but I 'm sure ZZAP ! readers will have more sense . |
| 5 | If such highly centralised decision-making |
| 6 | Many , probably the great majority of the population , were convinced by 1939 if not before that the Jews had been a harmful influence in German society , and that it would be better if those still remaining left ( or were forced to leave ) as soon as possible . |