Example sentences of "[conj] if it [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 2 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 3 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 4 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 5 | Yeah , buy it in innocence and if it 's been robbed the police confiscate off you you get a piece of paper saying that they 've got it , and that 's it you 've you 've got nothing ! |
| 6 | Cos if it 's been advertised and they have n't put in a claim the executors are safe to distribute the estate . |
| 7 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
| 8 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 9 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 10 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 11 | The horse may suffer anxiety in relation to one specific part of its life : shoeing , trailering , saddling , mounting , and so oh , but if it has been hurt in a number of situations , it is likely to learn to be anxious in relation to anything to do with people . |
| 12 | Well you can , but if it 's been unbound then |
| 13 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 14 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 15 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 16 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 17 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 18 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |