Example sentences of "[noun sg] if it 's [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Not difficult to understand then why a stove can be a backpacker 's best friend — or worst enemy if it 's not suited to the use you intend .
2 I just wondered what those contexts and you will be bound to be asked it in council if it 's not asked now .
3 No it 's quite a nice smell if it 's like taken out now .
4 So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg .
5 What would be the point of the evidence if it 's not implicating in trial ?
6 Often happens for a first night if it 's not selling … ’
7 ‘ I 'll take you up on that offer of a bed if it 's still going . ’
8 Why have a scheme if it 's not publicised ?
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