Example sentences of "[adj] if it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 2 | I would n't be doing this if it had n't happened . |
| 3 | It was all very well picking at the past like this if it helped to exorcise the demons , but he was n't sure that was what William wanted . |
| 4 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 5 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 6 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 7 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 8 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , would n't it be exciting if it landed near us ! ’ cried Hilary . |
| 10 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 11 | Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ? |
| 12 | ‘ It would have been more interesting if it had been more explicit , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Er four hundred , four hundred , to , four hundreds if it 'd won , for a place he would have get less , but he was still in it it was |
| 14 | The fashionable question ‘ How does the head office add value ? ’ would be clearer if it asked , ‘ When and why does a firmlet gain from being part of a company ? ’ |
| 15 | But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ? |
| 16 | Because it would n't really matter that much if it took an hour for the police officer to come . |
| 17 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 18 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 19 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 20 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 21 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 22 | It would have been very sad if it had been stopped . ’ |
| 23 | He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining . |
| 24 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 25 | The question of the uniqueness of the initial conditions is closely related to that of the arbitrariness of the local physical laws : One would not regard a theory as complete if it contained a number of adjustable parameters such as masses or coupling constants that could be given any values one liked . |
| 26 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 27 | In a gesture worthy of King Canute they went further : ‘ It may become necessary to consider whether the community as a whole would not be happier and more stable if it abolished divorce altogether , ’ they wrote . |
| 28 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it embarrassed you … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it did n't provide a job for you , ’ he said , relieved , and looked round for Amanda , who had used the surface tension of the moment to walk away . |