Example sentences of "[adv] if it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 2 | Perhaps if it had n't happened so handily by chance , he would have engineered a meeting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 5 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 6 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 7 | A picture of the American family began to be glimpsed as a super-mobile group that could get together to grill a hamburger only if it drove to the appointment . |
| 8 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 9 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 10 | Only if it had been clearly demonstrated to me that trust status would involve a positive move in that direction would I allow such status to be assumed . |
| 11 | Likewise , football was to be consumed like any other consumer product — only if it offered the prospect of excitement — often as a TV spectacle in the comfort of one 's own home . |
| 12 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 13 | Resistance unity , in his view , served a purpose only if it served the interests of his " state " . |
| 14 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 15 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 16 | The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement . |
| 17 | The second set of compulsory powers were not to become operative until the ‘ second appointed day ’ and were to be brought into effect only if it appeared ‘ that it is necessary in the public interest to enable the commission to obtain authority for the compulsory acquisition of land by a simplified procedure ’ . |
| 18 | Leskov was prepared to accept the utility of the term " liberal " , but only if it referred to advocates of moderation . |
| 19 | Indeed reason would infer the existence of a wall , especially if the town became a civitas capital , and even more so if it became the capital of the late-formed province of Valentia . |
| 20 | So if it achieved anything of lasting value , the sheer slog of the marathon Guinness trial clearly underlined the shortcomings of the present system and showed why reform was necessary . |
| 21 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 22 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 23 | so if it did n't come on the Monday it could come on the Tuesday , by next week |
| 24 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 25 | Reality 's raw challenge , especially if it engaged muscle and pluck , was his more favoured companion . |
| 26 | Whilst paying lip service to the concepts , the CEGB remained unconvinced that it should bother seriously with either conservation or the renewable sources of energy , especially if it meant abandoning Hinkley C. It was up to the government to decide whether to provide incentives for energy efficiency , whilst the renewables must wait until pilot projects showed their worth . |
| 27 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 28 | Full mixed-ability teaching , especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling , was comparatively rare . |
| 29 | Finally , as an incipient autocrat , he would not tolerate any interference , or " mediation " , wherever it came from , but especially if it came from foreigners . |
| 30 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |