Example sentences of "if it [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new drug could become a potential blockbuster if it treated a common ailment and generated $100m-plus in annual sales ( see table ) . |
| 2 | Its leaders knew there was a serious risk of trouble if it took a mass march into Gqozo 's lair . |
| 3 | She screwed up her face at the name as if it left a nasty taste in her mouth , adding : ‘ Ca n't abide that man . |
| 4 | The Whitbread brewing group was ruffled by stories it would be forced , under US legislation , to sell its US drink importing operations if it continued a trans-Atlantic restaurant build-up . |
| 5 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 6 | The east could only overthrow colonialism if it formed a separate Colonial International to fight against it ( and , by implication , the working-class form of colonialism in the Communist party ) . |
| 7 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 8 | The difficulty from the outset was that the Treasury would only give approval for mandatory awards for DipHE students if it had a two ‘ A ’ level entry . |
| 9 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 10 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 11 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 12 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 13 | Yes I think if it had a few |
| 14 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 15 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 16 | ‘ Women and film ’ would make a great movie if it had an international , multicultural cast and would address all these questions at once . |
| 17 | They never changed the booth they sat in and they found that nobody was ever sitting in it as if it had an invisible reserved sign hanging above it . |
| 18 | There is little agreement on the ethics of recording without permission in situations like these , but Labov 's general principle seems to offer a sensible guideline ; it is that the researcher should ‘ avoid any act that would be embarrassing to explain if it became a public issue ’ ( Labov 1981 : 33 ) . |
| 19 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 20 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 21 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 22 | In May a former deputy director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said that the USA would be violating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile ( ABM ) Treaty if it deployed a newly-tested missile tracking device as part of its " Star Wars " defence system . |
| 23 | When we see Grandcourt at breakfast there with Mr Lush , the scene is suggestively rendered as a ‘ still-life ’ , artfully composed but with no vital principle , the room ‘ seeming the stiller for its sober antiquated elegance , as if it kept a conscious , well-bred silence ’ . |
| 24 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 25 | The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement . |
| 26 | It was held that ‘ an act of the parties or … an act of the courts ’ was necessary to revoke consent , and it was suggested that an agreement to separate , particularly if it included a non-molestation clause , would suffice . |
| 27 | It 's not a sum you 'd throw away ; but you 'd be happy if it bought a new handbag , a train fare to London or a tankful of petrol . |
| 28 | They found that a severe event was of most aetiological significance if it threatened a role , person or idea to which a woman was particularly committed ( established in an interview one year before ) or if it matched a long-standing major difficulty in the woman 's life . |
| 29 | But there was no doubt that the décor was too bare , too cool if it allowed a few interesting and stylized images ( the sea , the intervention of the gods ) to stiffen the characters on stage . |
| 30 | Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 ! |