Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarissa was as reasonable as ever , gently pointing out that it was a little game their neighbour was playing , which she 'd get sick of if no-one responded . |
| 2 | If no-one saw the caravan being towed along any of the main roads in the area , then Allen believes the gang may have stored it somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 3 | If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip , and Montgomery would not be amused . |
| 4 | Such arguments would have been powerless , even silly , if everyone thought that the practices they challenged needed no support beyond convention or that these practices constituted the game of law in the way the rules of chess constitute that game . |
| 5 | They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost . |
| 6 | Yeah I know but if everyone went out if you 're allowed |
| 7 | If everyone played the same chess game , it would be stalemate . |
| 8 | If everyone followed convention , no one would profit . |
| 9 | Many ailments which are blamed on old age could be avoided if everyone ate a healthy diet . |
| 10 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 11 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 12 | If everyone had been like she was the human race would have died out long ago . |
| 13 | If … if everyone had their rights I should be legal mistress of this place now . |
| 14 | If everyone had one of these , the crime rate would drop by about fifty per cent . ’ |
| 15 | Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , UK manufacturer of intelligent input/output controllers has pulled out of ACE : marketing director , Ian Cummins says ‘ ACE was initially a good idea if everyone had worked together . |
| 16 | If everyone had no confidence , no one kindly , passionate-feeling human person would ever be approached by any other kindly , passionate-feeling human person . |
| 17 | In if everyone had a meter , |
| 18 | If we further take account of intergenerational differences , then the coefficient of variation over all generations , denoted by , is the weighted sum of individual plus the coefficient of variation obtained if everyone had the mean income of their generation ( the ‘ between-generations ’ inequality ) . |
| 19 | If everyone had identical tastes and endowments , then many public finance questions would lose their significance , and this is particularly true of the behaviour of the state . |
| 20 | If everyone had the same preferences as individual i , the same pre-tax income Y i , and the same perception of the tax required , then there would be no disagreement over the level of public spending . |
| 21 | If everyone had waited until they could promise their children a safe life , the human race would be extinct . ’ |
| 22 | It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the centre-right party 's expert on political marketing . |
| 23 | Of course , if everyone knew their partners inside out , there 's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth . |
| 24 | ‘ The way I see it , if everyone knew what they wanted , the TV would never have been invented , the car would never have been invented , the plane would never have been invented or ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ would never have come out because no one liked ‘ Led Zeppelin I ’ . |
| 25 | To see clearly that the selection of the parameter γ 2 affects the distribution of output around its natural level , we follow Barro 's procedure and first derive what real output in a typical market would be if there were full current information ; that is , if everyone knew the current value of all the shocks affecting the economy . |
| 26 | ‘ You remember you said it was easy to get a book published if everyone knew your name ? ’ |
| 27 | It is interesting to wonder whether , if everyone cycled , even these would be necessary ! |
| 28 | They reckon if everyone drove round this it up . |
| 29 | They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year . |
| 30 | ‘ If everyone sang in English more people would enjoy the music and want to watch . ’ |