Example sentences of "if it [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |
| 2 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 3 | The sun came late in December if it came at all . |
| 4 | So we see the difficulties of defining even a recent period of earth history , and the protagonists of the varied viewpoints would probably ( if it mattered at all ) argue just as fiercely as stratigraphers over the boundaries . |
| 5 | The disappointing turnout of visitors to London 's Solutions for Workstations Show earlier this month has led to redundancies at show organiser EMAP Exhibitions , including show manager , John Howe : Sun Microsystems Inc has already declined a space at next year 's event — if it happens at all . |
| 6 | In this sense , the English-speaking world can be divided into two broad speech-communities : one in which [ h ] -dropping is widespread and has social significance , and one in which it is so rare ( if it happens at all ) that it is socially irrelevant . |
| 7 | The bud ( e ) has been burrowed into by the tortrix moth , and if it opens at all will be badly damaged . |
| 8 | A miracle , in other words , if it occurs at all , is a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 9 | I do n't know if it shuts at five o'clock or what they do or if evening staff come on ? |
| 10 | If it goes at different times , it 's a different consignment . |
| 11 | ‘ If it helps at all , Colonel , it was apparently a heart attack your father died of . |
| 12 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 13 | The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research . |
| 14 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 15 | The only fly in the ointment is if it starts at seven , it 's going to be a bit of a rush . |
| 16 | The subsidiarity principle ( taking decisions at the lowest practicable level of government ) , which the British government makes much of , is drafted in a form so soft that it will cut both ways if it cuts at all . |
| 17 | Moreover , physical contact , if it proceeds at all , will almost inevitably reach the point of physical stimulation of their sexual parts , so that now the reflex component also comes into play . |
| 18 | and then I can take you home afterwards , see if it finishes at three I wo n't be home till quarter to four at the earliest |
| 19 | The dividing line here is a tenuous one if it exists at all . |
| 20 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 21 | and conscience is either killed , or , if it lives at all , lives but to give rebellion its fascination , and disobedience its charm . |