Example sentences of "if it [be] as " in BNC.

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1 If it is as effective as the researchers say it is I am sure it is going to be a very big hit with cellulite sufferers world-wide .
2 This is why publication of the Institute 's Environment Research Group 's report Business , Accountancy and the Enviroment : A Policy and Research Agenda is such a welcome event , even if it is as much as two years too late .
3 If it is as good as you say employers would be queuing up to get in !
4 If it is as long as that !
5 Now , that in itself implies that everything you receive you check to see if it is as specified .
6 If it 's as big as your mouth , you 're on , ’ I replied with a cool nonchalance that belonged to someone else ( that was me , you fool ! ) .
7 ‘ But if it 's as simple as Father says … . ’
8 ‘ You 're very kind , Sean , but maybe if it 's as bad as that my husband would want to go himself … . ’
9 if it 's as close as you like to zero ,
10 ‘ Well , if it 's as good as your imagination …
11 That if it 's as well well before the meeting Monday because at the end of the day you know we , we got ta look at the matter going forward is n't it ?
12 But if it was as clever and efficient as we in the West say it is , then one might expect it to have achieved much more .
13 How simple life would be , if it was as simple as we think !
14 Cos if it was as long as three hours , then I 'd expect Julie would have had to program them in for it would n't she .
15 As he picked his way through the traffic , heading south , Rory wondered if it was as plain as that .
16 My Lords , the the Noble Lord is intensively anxious about this policy , if it was as unsuccessful as the Noble Lord believes , he would n't be exercised about it and sec secondly My Lords on cash protection , the Noble Lord confuses cash protection with money for erm er providing er information to parents .
17 Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there
18 If it were as close to us as the Orion Nebula , it would cast shadows .
19 Look in particular for the complicated Tarantula Nebula ( 30 Doradûs ) , which is the most brilliant part of the whole Cloud and can be identified even with the naked eye : it is the largest known diffuse nebula , and if it were as close to us as M42 in Orion it would cast strong shadows .
20 But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started .
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