Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 2 | The proposed shoe factory , for example , would make a return on capital of around 15% if it sold running shoes for 1,000 roubles a pair . |
| 3 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 4 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 5 | The Brewers ' Society contended that arrangements with their outlets fell within the block exemption of exclusive purchasing agreements 1984/83 , and therefore that the UK would be in breach of its obligations under the Treaty of Rome if it prohibited such arrangements . |
| 6 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 7 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 8 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 9 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 10 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |
| 11 | That 's if it had any sockets upstairs ! |
| 12 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 13 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
| 14 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 15 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 16 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 17 | I hate to think what effect it would have on our deficit if it included realistic costings of the value of their time . |
| 18 | Ductal cannulation was rated as ‘ easy ’ if cannulation could be achieved immediately , and as ‘ difficult ’ if it required repeated attempts leading to obvious trauma to the papilla . |
| 19 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 20 | Now we know that such a deformation can not take place in a polymer , for if it did some atoms would move relative to their topological nearest neighbours by far more than covalent forces would allow , dissociation would occur ( chain scission ) and the nature of the polymer would change . |