Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem list is likely to be most useful if it has been jointly formulated by the patient and the therapist ( p. 70 ) . |
| 2 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 3 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 4 | It seems probable , then , that a belief can only be genuinely infallible if it has no content at all . |
| 5 | For males sex may be very important , but for females reproduction may be , may be more significant if it involves as it does in the case of all mammals and certainly human beings , considerable parental investment on the part of the mother . |
| 6 | Simple material can be unmistakably right if it has an appropriate urge and impulse . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nothing would , in our belief , conduce more to the unity and harmony of the nation than a public policy directed to the provision of equal intellectual opportunities for all , and service to this end would be doubly effective if it came voluntarily as from those who have already received their inheritance , and desire to share with the rest of their countrymen that in which their life and freedom most truly consist . |
| 9 | I 'd be very disappointed if it did n't become a wealthy country within five or ten years , as opposed to other oil-producing countrie s I 've lived in , Nigeria or Libya . |
| 10 | It is very popular among my family and friends and we would be very disappointed if it finishes . |
| 11 | But however heated the protagonists may become about whether proto-oncogene activation entails qualitative or quantitative changes , no one on the outside will be very surprised if it turns out both are right . |
| 12 | However , given the importance of the mortality record of the children of what we believe to be economically inactive , one parent families , any analysis of health inequalities will be seriously flawed if it fails to include this group . |
| 13 | If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ . |
| 14 | It is arguable that this would be right ; but on the whole it seems to us that , whatever view is taken of the buyer 's moral duty , the law would be too strict if it made him guilty of theft . |