Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 2 | So I opened this one with practised diffidence … and , if it brought neither emotional nor financial reward , it caused me to dash off an angry — ‘ Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — letter within the hour . |
| 3 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 4 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 5 | Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness . |
| 6 | But if that activity became more strident and refused to take no for an answer ; if it became more popular , participatory , and direct , taking to the streets and becoming something called " extra-parliamentary politics " ; and if it threatened to overload the capacity of the state , then it was condemned — and condemned as at odds with the liberal-democracy of the British constitution . |
| 7 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 8 | The public had a right to be properly informed , which could only be denied them if it appeared absolutely certain that the article would have presented a threat to judicial authority . |
| 9 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not yet proven , ’ declared Prior Robert , falling back upon the mere material facts of the case , ‘ that men — and sinful men , for if it happened so this was sacrilegious theft ! — had no part in her removal from our care . |
| 11 | Coun Dennis Howey told the planning committee that if it closed then local butchers and farmers would have to travel to Darlington and York . |
| 12 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 13 | If it set too high , then performance will be poor since it will be completing its workload using a higher number of smaller portions than necessary . |