Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 2 | Your application will be considered more favourably if you take some money with you . |
| 3 | The analogy can be carried even further if we consider what happens as we approach the stall . |
| 4 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 5 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 6 | After many years of National Trust-going , I have found that visits to historic properties are made much easier if you take the right equipment with you , and now I would n't dream of going anywhere without at least the following : |
| 7 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 8 | I 'd never get my letters written anyway so if you want to switch it off , I 'll get on with my letters and erm you do your knitting and I 'll , what is the time ? |
| 9 | This aspect of option premiums may be seen more clearly if we look at calls and puts with the same exercise price but with different expiry dates . |
| 10 | Perhaps the distinction I want to draw can be seen more clearly if we start with an example involving size rather than colour . |
| 11 | It 's more fun and is likely to be done more regularly if you share your exercise sessions with a neighbour or friend . |
| 12 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 13 | Well do n't have it done then well if you have them done you 'll have them with the frame |
| 14 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 15 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 16 | " The role of quantitative evidence can be understood more clearly if we look at the interrelation of the three concepts of DEVIANCE , PROMINENCE , and LITERARY RELEVANCE . |
| 17 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 18 | In an emergency assistance can be provided more quickly if you operate the red alarm when the train is at a station . |
| 19 | Is my hon. Friend aware that up to 500,000 jobs in Britain depend on having a sensible , controlled market , and that discipline and control of third world dumped imports can be brought about only if we have a sensible GATT regime ? |
| 20 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 21 | May I also say that the Department 's concern would be taken more seriously if it did not take over three months to get replies from the Secretary of State to hon. Members who draw his attention to accusations that have been made in relation to what goes on in Castlereagh ? |
| 22 | I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves . |
| 23 | But another union blames bad management on Dowty 's part , and says Dowty Fuel Sytems would have shut down anyway if it had n't been sold . |
| 24 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |
| 25 | This process is enhanced still further if you adopt visual behaviours which reinforce the things you are saying . |
| 26 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |