Example sentences of "if it [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't sure if it would work so I had to try it out before buying it . |
| 2 | Given the consultations and enquiries that are now needed for relatively minor landscape changes , it is doubtful if it would have ever been achieved . |
| 3 | It does n't look as if it 'll factorize easily . |
| 4 | But it 's essentially , therefore , that natural selection is only going to produce adaptations if it can do so gradually , that 's basically the guts of Darwin 's position . |
| 5 | If it can escape freely , then the eruption will not be violently explosive , since all explosions are the result of the more or less instantaneous expansion of large volumes of gas . |
| 6 | Everything 's owned by the by the government and er , I know it 's not a right good thing , like , but if it could work properly , it would be a damn good thing . |
| 7 | Now , we may surmise that any individual fish , if it could get away with it , would ‘ prefer ’ to play the male role all the time , because the male role is cheaper . |
| 8 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 9 | I can only wonder if it will bear very much relationship to the manifesto finally produced by the Conservative party before the next European election . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 11 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 12 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |