Example sentences of "if [art] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Maronites had taken a similar path , perhaps seeking a confederated state within a Greater Lebanon , the catastrophe that befell their grandsons might have been averted . |
| 2 | If the newspapers lied to cover up such a disaster , they would lie about other things too . |
| 3 | If the telephones had rung you would have taken fright . |
| 4 | What , if the comedians had have been an hour late , would you have booked |
| 5 | The Premier also said there was still the option of an American peace envoy being appointed to oversee developments in Ulster — if the talks failed to get under way again . |
| 6 | It was not clean and tidy as if the thoughts had flowed easily ; it was double-spaced , and the spaces were larded with corrections in type and pencil , crossings-out , insertions , changed words … it was very hard to make it out . |
| 7 | Eddie Ramsay , managing director of the Powderhall greyhound track in Edinburgh , said he did not expect to lose much business if the bookmakers did extend their hours . |
| 8 | Certainly , however , if the owners had known of the secret intention , they would not have consented . |
| 9 | That would have set them a puzzle , would n't it , if the fibres had come from one of them ? ’ |
| 10 | A couple of back-row changes and a second-row change were badly needed and I are sure the humiliation against the Wallabies could have been avoided if the selectors had acted on the evidence . |
| 11 | Suddenly , here , on the windswept rock , after the battle , she experienced certainty and settling , as if the clouds had parted and the sun had illuminated her . |
| 12 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 13 | And it has been revealed that if the flames had spread to gas lines in the science block at Dyke House School in Hartlepool it could have been a lot worse . |
| 14 | Silas had visited his stepmother , even if the circumstances had left much to be desired . |
| 15 | The prosecution claims that if the defendants had succeeded in their plot , they would have netted more than a hundred and thirty eight thousand pounds . |
| 16 | v. Lindley , the facts of which have already been given , two at least of their Lordships considered that if the defendants had used unlawful means — i.e . |
| 17 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 18 | UK interest rates would have to follow suit if the authorities wished to maintain a stable exchange rate . |
| 19 | Even if the authorities had wanted to rule the countryside with a rod of iron they were in no position to do so . |
| 20 | If the authorities had had any sense , they would have closed the cafes . ’ |
| 21 | Dr Robert Woodward of Contassium said that if the authorities wanted to withdraw B17 they would ‘ have to ban marzipan ; you can get the equivalent of a 25 mg tablet of B17 by eating 20 almonds , ’ he said . |
| 22 | If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ We would n't if the Germans had refused as well . ’ |
| 24 | One old lady from Wiltshire told me if the Germans had come they 'd have killed off old people like her . |
| 25 | If the Germans had got this far , the British Goverment would have wanted it kept under wraps . |
| 26 | It was a view endorsed by the RCM , who feared the replication of the European ghettos with all that implied if the Germans did succeed in breaking through . |
| 27 | Stirling reasoned that if the Germans did continue their attack and captured Cairo , the whole unit could retreat south from its desert base , thus avoiding capture . |
| 28 | Oxygen travels by means of billions of collisions of gas particles , a process that would be too slow if the molecules had to travel more than a fraction of an inch . |
| 29 | Even if the Russians had wanted to use the pretext to reconquer the Ukraine , however , they could not have done so . |
| 30 | Asked if the Russians had provided the Afghans with the latest MiG-29s , he said : ‘ Anything we desire will be given to us but we do not want to escalate the war . ’ |