Example sentences of "if [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If divine omnipotence had been really displayed , the deity would have had to create those other worlds that Bruno 's scholastic predecessors had acknowledged He could have ( but actually had not ) made . |
| 2 | This will be most successful if advance preparation has been carried out . |
| 3 | If each row had been widened , one row would have had to have been removed , meaning the new front seats would have been higher than health and safety rules allowed . |
| 4 | At least six patients with lesions less than 7 cm from the anal margin would have required permanent colostomy if palliative resection had been carried out . |
| 5 | The court held that this should not have happened if due care had been used and the doctrine was applied . |
| 6 | Oh , if that girl 's been chucked out of her house , she 's been there then all the week then ? |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Where the holder of a licence under this Part of this Act subsequently ceases to be the manager of the canteen , the person for the time being in charge of the canteen may , during the period of 14 days from the date on which the holder of the licence ceased to be the manager , sell alcoholic liquor in the canteen as if that licence had been transferred to him . |
| 8 | And if that work had been started , because as far as I 'm concerned sickness does not cover maternity . |
| 9 | Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract . |
| 10 | If that opportunity had been available to him , who knows what difference it might have made ? |
| 11 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |
| 12 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 13 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 14 | Imagine if that ship had been hit … |
| 15 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 16 | Would it have made any difference , Melissa wondered as she turned the key , if that lock had been changed earlier ? |
| 17 | I do n't know if that point has been put across yet , but Truna is black . |
| 18 | If that period has been broken , or if you work only part-time , the small print of the legislation might exclude you from its scope . |
| 19 | You , poor little one , were the victim of a pure overwhelming desire , and I of a smaller desire by no means pure ; and I feel much more abject than if that desire had been satisfied . |
| 20 | yeah , to see if that car 's been sold , stolen or whatever and yet a solicitor come he said your solicitor will be able to pick up the phone , take you through the right channels , see if he 's sold that car , he has n't sold the car , who 's he sold it |
| 21 | Well I shall go because if that fella 's been from , if that fella said I did n't have a job I 'll be jumping up and down like a what d' ya call it ! |
| 22 | Depending on the sophistication of the customer it is not necessarily sufficient that the matters are covered in an agreement even if that agreement has been signed by the customer . |
| 23 | Now , if political education had been transported by means of the vehicle of citizenship from the position of ‘ low status , high risk ’ to ‘ a place in the sun ’ , had it also been transformed on the way ? |
| 24 | It was as if menacing music had been played in a film , accompanying a scene of innocent happiness . |
| 25 | How if that were true , how if another victim had been intended , not Aldhelm ? |
| 26 | Lady Eleanor took me into her confidence and told me how every day , late in the evening , she went down there to see if another letter had been left . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We did n't know if another bomb had been planted on another platform , ’ admitted Miss Godfrey , who uses the station three times a week . |
| 28 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 29 | And erm then the Inspector then found out if this scum works is going to carry on charging through these men . |
| 30 | Prior to 1980 , the state pension was also linked to the average rise in earnings , whichever was the higher , and if this link had been maintained , single pensioners and married couples would be receiving an extra £12.80 and £20.50 , respectively . |