Example sentences of "[conj] if [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his efforts to persuade the Grand Junction in favour of the Foxton-Willoughby ( or Norton ) route , Barnes made a detailed survey , and apparently satisfied most critics and competing interests , including landowners and farmers , that if properly conserved there was plenty of water for ‘ a very ample trade ’ . |
| 2 | The commissions had recommended ‘ mild ’ legislation about industrial pollution ; and Frankland believed that if firmly enforced it |
| 3 | However , the Tories and Labour signalled that if either emerged as the largest single party they would put a Queen 's Speech to Parliament and dare the other parties to vote them down — possibly triggering another election as soon as October . |
| 4 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 5 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried ? |
| 6 | If one remained in the new country , was one obliged to break one 's ties with the old , and if so did one want to ? |
| 7 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 8 | Diode-pumped , solid state miniature lasers are another promising area of research since if sufficiently powered they are capable of driving non-linear optical devices , while the development of fibre lasers is being investigated as an alternative to laser diodes . |