Example sentences of "but [adv] if [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 2 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 3 | After ten rounds of the game , I could theoretically have won as much as $5,000 , but only if you have been extraordinarily silly ( or saintly ) and played COOPERATE every time , in spite of the fact that I was consistently defecting . |
| 4 | But even if they had been MacQuillan 's they would have been no use . |
| 5 | From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition . |
| 6 | He looked distraught , his tie was pulled down and his collar open , his hair was ruffled , but even if he had been neatly dressed and groomed , the bright staring eyes and hectic cheeks would have warned Pascoe that something was amiss . |
| 7 | She heard her own shaming urgency and winced self-consciously , but even if he had been an observant man , Florian was currently too preoccupied to have noticed it , still busily congratulating himself and probably fantasising about taking Hawaii by storm . |
| 8 | But even if she 'd been fully clothed the chance of escape was gone before it arrived . |
| 9 | But even if there had been , the groups would still have been unified by their joint involvement in a single ambitious enterprise , a single overriding endeavour — to rid their land of the Roman occupation and reinstate the old Judaic monarchy together with its rightful priesthood . |
| 10 | But even if there had been no dust , smoke or snow , he would still have been unable to see it , because he was now lying on the floor beside the window , having fallen off his chair . |
| 11 | There was no longer any mystery about Rose 's birth , but even if there had been , Harry would not have cared . |
| 12 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |