Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have warned that private developers could agree to destroy ‘ dangerous waste ’ from throughout Europe and claimed that the council could make more than £1m a year if it modernised the Duncrue plant . |
| 2 | If it released the figures before it would be obvious to everyone that Mr Hyams ' management philosophy had been superior to that of MEPC 's . |
| 3 | And if it if it came an air raid you started scurrying to the hill to get in the tunnel . |
| 4 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 5 | But he pointed out that drivers had always been liable to pay tax on their allowances if it exceeded the cost of running and maintaining a car . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ If it summoned the Ship , ’ said Gurder . |
| 8 | If it afforded the guardians a little light relief , the minutes do not suggest that the complaint was taken anything but seriously . |
| 9 | The House of Commons would make a great mistake if it accepted the proposition that this is the right way for it to operate . |
| 10 | Not to answer the summons made matters worse , as it had always done , and particularly if it concerned a mortgage . |
| 11 | ‘ The only reason for the Prime Minister to make a statement was if it concerned a matter of grave constitutional importance . |
| 12 | Even if it took every penny of his redundancy money . |
| 13 | If it took a couple of weeks to trace and arrange to visit all the closest relatives of the victims of a train disaster , say , those most likely to become severely depressed might already have done so . |
| 14 | Because it would n't really matter that much if it took an hour for the police officer to come . |
| 15 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 16 | But even it would do itself a favour if it took the Tippex to its business stationery and removed that redundant word ‘ Centre ’ . |
| 17 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 18 | In both these situations , the buyer is assured of a return of the original price plus interest and is not taking any significantly greater risk than if it made a loan secured on the property concerned . |
| 19 | Major C R Anson of Anson Airways promised to buy the prototype if it made a record flight to Australia where it would be operated . |
| 20 | ‘ If the Certificate of Primary Education tested material which was firmly within the grasp of primary school teachers : if it tested the ability to re–son and understand relationships of cause and effect ; and , if , above all , it tested relevant and practical knowledge , it would be at the same time both a more efficient and equitable instrument for selecting secondary school entrants and also a more useful preparation for those for whom primary education is terminal . |
| 21 | The volatile oily liquid beta-chloro-beta-ethyl sulphide was first synthesized in 1854 , and in 1887 it was reported to produce blisters if it touched the skin . |
| 22 | In particular , he reversed his previous position that Greece would recognize Macedonia if it adopted a prefix to distinguish it from the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 23 | In addition , the Secretary of State could override or veto any decision of the Scottish Assembly if it affected a matter reserved to the Westminster Parliament in a way which the Secretary of State felt was contrary to the public interest . |
| 24 | An obvious example would be if it reached a decision in flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice . |
| 25 | The paper would need a minimum circulation of 300,000 to make money , and with an annual expenditure of £13.3 million would make an annual profit of £6.4 million if it reached a circulation of 500,000 But the idea never got off the ground . |
| 26 | In 1980 , mining operations threatened the fabric of the house and British Coal , calculating it would be cheaper to cope with subsidence problems if it owned the house itself , acquired the property . |
| 27 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 28 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 29 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 30 | He did n't mind spending the money if it brought a result , but something like this put the whole world out of balance . |