Example sentences of "[conj] if it [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , while the court would not have imposed liability in respect of the decision itself ( except if it had been perverse ) failure to go through the preliminary steps of obtaining essential information could have grounded liability . |
| 2 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 3 | Their Lordships said that if it had been saleable only at a ‘ throw away ’ price , that would indicate that it was not of merchantable quality . |
| 4 | And if it had been obvious to Jean then Silas would notice it in two seconds or less . |
| 5 | ‘ He has now had an X-ray , but if it had been serious , it might have been too late . ’ |
| 6 | But if it had been necessary for me to do so , I would have concluded that the whole loss should be borne by Union Discount . |
| 7 | Since I am persuaded by Mr. Lester 's first argument on article 10 , I do not propose to review further the alternatives ; but if it had been necessary to make a decision I , for my part , would have found the task more suited to Parliament than to this court . |
| 8 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 9 | She no longer needed to jump in the swimming pool to raise £5 , though if it had been necessary she would probable have done it : " You believe in God but you also use every means possible to raise funds . |
| 10 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |