Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps if everybody had a stake in the business , they would work better , ’ said Robyn . |
| 2 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 3 | they are now , perhaps if you had a word with them |
| 4 | Perhaps if you had a child … ’ |
| 5 | ( Perhaps if I knew the language , I would not have time for these facile analogies . ) |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps if I found a partner … |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps if I fellated the gentleman , would that prove my true Gallic blood ? ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps if he seized the moment , lifted her long mane of hair , kissed the tender little place where the fragile bones disappeared into the collar of her jacket … |
| 9 | Perhaps if he wrecked the thermostat , someone would think it worth putting a little pressure on their British friends . |
| 10 | Perhaps if someone invented a time machine ( almost certainly a scientific impossibility ) archaeologists would have the satisfaction of being able to prove and disprove each other 's theories ; failing that , we have to accept that the science of the distant past is a matter of informed deduction and , let us face it , guesswork . |
| 11 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 12 | Moreover , landlords were restrained by the knowledge that they would attract good tenants only if they had a reputation for fairness . |
| 13 | They were asked to participate only if they had no history of gastrointestinal diseases or abdominal surgery other than appendectomy , and if they had no symptoms that could be attributed to gastrintestinal motility disorders . |
| 14 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 15 | Women were permitted corsets only if they used no force to preserve the shape . |
| 16 | We would understand the bark of a dog , like we do our own language , only if we had the mind of a dog . |
| 17 | The problem was that clubs would let you play only if you had a club handicap , but you could n't get a handicap without playing . |
| 18 | Only if you satisfied the selection board there were you allowed to carry on and start basic training , which itself lasted four months . |
| 19 | Only if I used the example of all mankind 's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds . |
| 20 | Likewise , football was to be consumed like any other consumer product — only if it offered the prospect of excitement — often as a TV spectacle in the comfort of one 's own home . |
| 21 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |
| 22 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 23 | Right so if we had a test statistic greater than one point seven zero on a T ratio . |
| 24 | Right , so if we had a test statistic greater than three point eight it would reject our null hypothesis . |
| 25 | And they 'd be all the same size so if we had a piece like those two stuck together |
| 26 | So if we drew a pie chart how many degrees would be the same as one penny ? |
| 27 | So if you had a word with Liz I bet she 'd be delighted to give you permission for the kids to visit the old family home . ’ |
| 28 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |
| 29 | so if you had a date in November that you could give me , time to get people together |
| 30 | So if you had a beaker full of sand with |