Example sentences of "[adj] if it have " 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 The demonstration should not go wrong if it has been adequately rehearsed beforehand .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date .
8 Complicated when it has to be written down to or detailed where there 's a lot of information to be taken in and it 's a lot easier if it 's done that way because people can refer back to it all the time .
9 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 .
10 Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ?
11 ‘ It would have been more interesting if it had been more explicit , ’ she said .
12 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
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed .
16 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 .
17 If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ .
18 It would have been very sad if it had been stopped . ’
19 He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining .
20 It 's earning the pennies to pay the bills at the end of the month ’ and I do get upset if it 's come out perfectly .
21 Some may even feel that perhaps sex is not quite right if it has nothing to do with procreation .
22 Simple material can be unmistakably right if it has an appropriate urge and impulse .
23 Perhaps , in this fictional world ( it must be fictional if it has dragons in it ) the knight is seeking a magic pineapple , hoarded in a dragon 's cave .
24 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 .
25 ‘ We have had our differences and I am sorry if it has caused offence . ’
26 It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’
27 Instead , the whole coating would have to be repainted much sooner that if it had been touched up periodically !
28 Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself .
29 ‘ And it would n't have done that if it had been driven down to Streatley and back ? ’
30 That I know we 're flogging a dead horse , but that half past ten , a phenomenal amount of time , it should never ever have taken a fraction of that if it had been done properly .
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