Example sentences of "if [adv] [art] [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only every night could be like this , from now on and for ever . |
| 2 | Bob looked at me as if only a muppet would ask a question like that . |
| 3 | as if only a god could be told |
| 4 | If only a miracle would occur … |
| 5 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 6 | If only the government would think as deeply about these matters . |
| 7 | If only the Government would finance the English system as generously as the Scottish , the UK would at least reach the ‘ seven per centers ’ . |
| 8 | They painted an enticing portrait of the bliss that lay ahead if only the peasantry would heed their call and rise up against the established order . |
| 9 | This is a serious omission , redolent of the old habits of thought that if only the public will trust Whitehall , all will be well . |
| 10 | But he remained convinced that if only the Elector could hear him he would change his mind : |
| 11 | If only the wind would have picked up , the fog would have been dispersed quickly . |
| 12 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |
| 13 | Oh if only the ground would proverbially open and swallow me . |
| 14 | Everything looked ready , if only the weather could improve . |
| 15 | If only the pantomime could go on for ever . |
| 16 | For the PC and related MS-DOS hardware Aldus may add a further 100,000 units during the coming year , with its PC version , nice business if only the dealer can get a share . |
| 17 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 18 | If so an embargo can be employed to make sure that the material is not published before a certain time . |
| 19 | If so the draftsman should consider giving one of the parties ( usually the landlord ) the right to choose whether the person to be appointed to determine the new rent should act as expert or arbitrator . |
| 20 | If so the requirement may be unjustified and the government may have no authority to impose it ( see the next paragraph for the difference between these possibilities ) . |
| 21 | Well , there were precedents for such things ; and if ever a monarch might not rest peacefully in the Fields of Aarru , that man was Akhenaten . |
| 22 | And if ever a woman could make a rabbit pie , it 's our Maggie . |
| 23 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 24 | If ever an image can ram that home , it is the new advertisement and its terrible sight of a victim with lifeless eyes . |