Example sentences of "if it was [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 2 | If it was a child I 'd say here you sit up properly . |
| 3 | Tommy listened , nodding , as if it was a story he 'd heard before . |
| 4 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 5 | But , unfortunately , she soon realised that if it was a nightmare it was a living nightmare . |
| 6 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 7 | If it was a mistake she was committed to it now . |
| 8 | ‘ If it was a mistake it is their fault , ’ said Andrew . |
| 9 | His grandmother said if it was a fact he would not get a grant she would finance him but that he should find out . |
| 10 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 11 | This was very important — if it was a woman I would walk right out again — I wanted someone young — a kind of ‘ big brother ’ image . |
| 12 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
| 13 | Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form . |
| 14 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 15 | ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’ |
| 16 | In effect , if it was a profession it was a profession in name only ( a point made indirectly by my lecturer who studiously avoided use of the word ) . |
| 17 | I hate people that erm when my dad burps , if , if it was a cup he 'd go excuse me , but but it 's when they go I hate that ! |
| 18 | Life is a gamble , at terrible odds — if it was a bet you would n't take it . |
| 19 | I laughed not scornfully or anything , but just as if it was a joke which I 'd only half got . |
| 20 | And you had if it was no good you wanting something and waving a bit of plastic at it . |
| 21 | Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that . |
| 22 | If it was the Rajah they made their excuses and left , but any unauthorised Romeo would receive the unkindest cut of all . |
| 23 | It really did n't matter to Britain if it was the Germans who brought efficiency to the Turkish economy — so long as someone did . |
| 24 | So , decided Pascoe , if it was the window he was after , he was trying to get in . |
| 25 | She no longer even cared if it was the direction she wanted to go . |
| 26 | Even if it was the day we 'd be sort of coming back |
| 27 | Creed stared out of the window , as if it was the Crumbles he could see . |
| 28 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 29 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 30 | Erm I just want to say if if it was an animal who was like chained up , would it still be in bad taste . |