Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have warned that private developers could agree to destroy ‘ dangerous waste ’ from throughout Europe and claimed that the council could make more than £1m a year if it modernised the Duncrue plant . |
| 2 | And if it if it came an air raid you started scurrying to the hill to get in the tunnel . |
| 3 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 4 | Major C R Anson of Anson Airways promised to buy the prototype if it made a record flight to Australia where it would be operated . |
| 5 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 6 | The straightforward application of this figure implies that a drawing office could get rid of two-thirds of its draughtsmen if it installed a CAD system . |
| 7 | A recent US Supreme Court case , Feist Publications Inc v Rural Telephone Service Company , has ruled that a database would only be able to gain copyright protection if it met the copyright standard of ‘ originality ’ in its mode of functioning ; copyright protection would not simply be extended to include items which took effort on the part of the owner to compile . |
| 8 | Labour 's training levy — the introduction of yet another socialist tax on industry — would either reduce profit margins and therefore investment or , if it expanded the money supply , would lead to an increase in prices . |
| 9 | That value is small compared with the potential value that a search firm would have if it had a market quotation ; there would be a significant number of new millionaires were that to happen . |
| 10 | In a BBC interview during his brief period of freedom he had promised to continue campaigning for multiparty democracy even if it meant a death sentence for sedition . |
| 11 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 12 | What the package meant for France , therefore , was that if it wanted an agriculture settlement , it would have to accept an increase in the supranational characteristics of the EEC . |
| 13 | Any interruption might stop the flow , and if it gave the Colonel pause for thought , and the brain behind the little piggy eyes a chance to work , it might result in an enraged charge . |
| 14 | But more pragmatically , the British government was hamstrung by its aviation agreements with America , and the fears of debilitating legal consequences if it allowed a price war to break out . |