Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 3 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 4 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 5 | Endemic to that problem , even if there had been some certainty about previous spends , is the unpredictability about future trends : ten unforeseen multi-handicapped users can throw budgets completely out of kilter . |
| 6 | Even if there had been another big story , it would have to be very big indeed to be bigger than this one ! ’ |
| 7 | Even if there has been some limited Government recognition of this fact , changes in the taxation structure have lagged badly behind changes in the market place . |