Example sentences of "[adj] if it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 2 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 3 | First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart . |
| 4 | The demonstration should not go wrong if it has been adequately rehearsed beforehand . |
| 5 | It is the dies incertus an , certus quando of the glossators : it is not clear that the day will actually ever come , even though it is clear if it does when it will be . |
| 6 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 7 | It is tautological if all that is being said is that where there is no industrial capitalism , there are no industrial capitalists , and vice versa ; and it is fallacious if it is intended as a substantial proposition meaning that the limited growth in some Third World economies is due to the absence of innovators , intermediaries , risk-takers and the like . |
| 8 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 9 | But its food value is still very high if it is a vertebrate prey , such as a rodent , a bird or a fish . |
| 10 | He said the NHS needed to stay public if it was to remain ‘ the envy of the world ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It may get rusty with wet if it stays there all night . |
| 12 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 13 | It 's old Jackdaw 's — a thousand years old if it 's a day . ’ |
| 14 | If P is some occam term and x is a variable , we say that an occurrence of x in P is free if it is not in the scope of any declaration ( other than a parallel declaration ) of x in P , and bound otherwise . |
| 15 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 16 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 17 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 18 | ‘ That might be funny if it were n't so utterly ludicrous . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 20 | The spray is not merely unpleasant , but is also extremely painful if it reaches its target directly . |
| 21 | Peace reigns at last though , and everything in the smouldering remains of the garden would be rosy if it were n't for one little problem . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm interested if it actually exists , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 24 | A decade ago , a small car was regarded as highly economical if it was capable of averaging 30 mpg while a large family car was regarded as having acceptable fuel consumption at 20 mpg . |
| 25 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 26 | AT&T could find such co-operation elusive if it was also competing with them . |
| 27 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , would n't it be exciting if it landed near us ! ’ cried Hilary . |
| 29 | He says it looks quite exciting if it can save alot of trees , make fuel accessible to people who are having difficulty finding enough fuel , then it should be good . |
| 30 | I am doubtful if it was wise to include not only dialogue but descriptive passages in a sort of sub-Chaucerian English : for instance , ‘ Grammercy , brother ! |