Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] if it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The magnification tells you how much larger an object looks that if it were viewed with the naked eye .
2 He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more .
3 There have been commentators who have said that if it were introduced , it would be much more effective if it were introduced throughout the island .
4 On the other hand , it could be argued that if it is considered necessary to make an adoption order with a condition of access , then this may be seen as being imposed on the two or three parties and possibly of little value .
5 Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out .
6 I wish my right hon. Friend luck in his negotiations over the common agricultural policy , but I do not believe that if it were modified , as a result of my right hon. Friend 's efforts , to suit all our needs , the British farming industry would be able to take sufficient advantage of the improved conditions if its own marketing arrangements had not also been improved .
7 Eamon Wilson , The Beeches , Portadown , is alleged to have conspired with a person or persons unknown to make a threat to Sean McIvor , making him fear that if it were carried out he would be killed .
8 I believe that if it 's cut well enough that should be possible .
9 Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever .
10 erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ?
11 And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there .
12 Oh no er necessarily not , because er depending on the details of the er formula that all the words that er come out of the discussions today , er it 's got to be discussed by the members at grass-roots level , and if we 're not happy with it , we will be sticking to the action er certainly up until when the ballot is taken and if it is voted against er any deal that is struck at the moment , we will continue the action , and I think this will be not only in Oxfordshire , but up and down the country , the strength of feeling nationally is very strong .
13 The new owners of Oxford United admit that if it 's proved , then they have a moral obligation to pay the money back .
14 Local academics and ecologists estimate that if it 's allowed to continue industrial fishing will exhaust the stocks in just five years from now .
15 Tom Watson believes that if it were located in the middle of the course , it would not be as difficult .
16 Our problem , our central problem in the British trade union movement is that we have a trade union movement that operates very comfortably in one world , while over half the people of Britain work in an entirely different world , a world where trade unionism is scarcely ever mentioned and if it is mentioned , it 's mentioned with a hint of fear .
17 Once it is accepted that the reasonableness of a belief is merely evidence of its actually being held and if it is allowed that other cogent evidence may be admitted to prove the existence of the belief , there seems to be no difference at all between the honest subjectivist and the reasonable objectivist .
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