Example sentences of "if [noun] gave [pron] " in BNC.

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1 On May 11th Mr Ryabov appeared to give his blessing to Mr Yeltsin 's plan , when he said ‘ it would be nice if parliament gave its blessing ’ to the constitution adopted by the constituent assembly .
2 If money gave him power , he himself became a victim of it : many of these young men , once the recipient of Minton 's not uninterested generosity , returned in a steady stream for more .
3 If Althusser gave us history without a subject , Habermas gives us subjects without history .
4 If Joseph gave him an exhibition it could make a huge difference to Leary 's reputation , yet she wondered how likely it was that Joseph would help him .
5 So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ '
6 For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ .
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