Example sentences of "if [adj] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His election releases asked : ‘ What future would there be … if Labour were in control of government … immigration controls abandoned ? ’ |
| 2 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 3 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 4 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 5 | If that were to be the outcome , it would mean putting the clock back not twelve years , but a hundred years . |
| 6 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 7 | How much would it cost if fair compensation were paid to the standard rate taxpayer each year if that were to be done ? |
| 8 | Er , they would be helped , I think , by this and er , I think if that were to be the case , then I 'd be wholeheartedly behind it . |
| 9 | Er similarly we feel it would be more appropriate if that were to be the case er perhaps should point out there are other schemes where we have shown a series of of lines stars on the key diagram , it 's not just on the Harrogate . |
| 10 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 11 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 12 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 13 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 14 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 15 | However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical . |
| 16 | If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred . |
| 17 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 18 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 19 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 20 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 21 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 22 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 23 | She 'd be wise to push him out of her mind — if this were at all possible — and before she made a complete idiot of herself . |
| 24 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 25 | That said , he barely engaged with the details of the argument , dismissing the very notion of the lists as if this were beneath consideration . |
| 26 | If such were to be the case , the court would be confronted with a difference of medical opinion , very similar to the case in In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1421 . |
| 27 | It has never , therefore , been a ‘ value-free ’ academic discipline , if such were in any event possible . |
| 28 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |
| 29 | Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) . |
| 30 | Other institutional supports for citizenship could include a more responsive system of local government , and national and regional assemblies if these were to be set up . |