Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] if it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the car do its job if it was totally destroyed ? |
| 2 | ‘ I think the full list would lose its stature if it was just to open its doors to everything . |
| 3 | The High Court has upheld earlier decisions that an appeal was not within its jurisdiction if it was not transmitted to the High Court within 30 days of the appellant 's receipt of the Special Commissioner 's statement of the case ( p 101 ) . |
| 4 | The High Court upheld in Petch v Gurney ; Gurney v Petch [ 1992 ] STI 943 earlier decisions that an appeal was not within its jurisdiction if it was not transmitted to the High Court within 30 days of its receipt by the appellant . |
| 5 | In my mind you can make up anything you want in your notebooks , but you ca n't call it fraud if it was n't published . |
| 6 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
| 7 | And him with nothing to his name if it were n't for my late mistress ! ’ |
| 8 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 9 | The fact that you would need to change your menu if it was n't being used . |
| 10 | Could you change your class if it were really |