Example sentences of "if [ex0] [verb] [be] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way . |
| 3 | Experience was regarded as " limited " in variety if among the youngest age group it was little or nothing ; among unmarried subjects over the age of 20 if there had been no sexual intercourse nor other stimulation to orgasm by another person ; and among older or married people if sexual intercourse , with its preliminary manual love-play , had been the only sexual activity . |
| 4 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 5 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 6 | If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim . |
| 7 | For others , if there have been no actual complaints , the problems nevertheless seem pretty apparent . |