Example sentences of "if [ex0] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If cc was a causal circumstance for e , then ( 5 ) If cc occurred , then even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was never the less the case that e occurred — or , cc began and e ended a sequence of things such that it was true of each one and its immediate successor that if the first occurred , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with both , then the second also occurred . |
| 2 | If cc was a causal circumstance for e , then ( 5 ) If cc occurred , then even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was never the less the case that e occurred — or , cc began and e ended a sequence of things such that it was true of each one and its immediate successor that if the first occurred , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with both , then the second also occurred . |
| 3 | If e happened , at least one of cc or cc " or cc " or … existed , even if there also occurred any change x consistent with both . |
| 4 | Consider also if cc occurred then , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was also the case that e occurred-which is the first part of the independent conditional in ( 5 ) . |
| 5 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |