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Example sentences of "if it " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If 't were another
2	Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ?
3	I should be there — for appearance 's sake , as Edward says — but out of earshot if 't is any concern to you ! ’
4	A payment only qualifies under Gift Aid if it is a ‘ gift ’ .
5	A payment will not qualify under Gift Aid if it is made to enable the charity to purchase a property , or other assets , from the donor or from a ‘ connected person ’ .
6	They 've liaised with other organisations to make sure I 've got somebody coming in , even if it 's only to make me something to eat .
7	According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace .
8	To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first .
9	For if it is a Deceit , the whole Bible is Madness .
10	for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art .
11	However , the reputation of the cataloguer may be in some instances considered decisive ; the picture is by Van Gogh if it is in the book by de la faille ; a painting by Berthe Morisot needs to be approved by Bataille and Wildenstein ; an authentic work by Picasso will be found in Zervos .
12	But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river .
13	Even if the world looked different from that height , even if it looked changed , even if what on the ground seemed important was transformed into insignificance .
14	The poem might be thought self-pitying if it were more believable .
15	The selection is right if it truly works for the competing student , and it is the quality and force of the imagination that will carry off the performance of the piece .
16	If it be nasty weather , I take a turn in the chocolate-hause : where , as you walk , madam , you have the prettiest prospect in the world ; you have lookingglasses all round you .
17	It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong .
18	If any professional person has shown an interest in your work do n't let it go , but try to cultivate their interest , however tenuous it may seem — you will soon know if it 's going to be any use for the future .
19	If it 's a general audition , be prepared for anything ; look good and concentrate like mad on your work — always do that anyway .
20	The Alexander technique would be invaluable if it were properly included in all drama training programmes .
21	The implementation of liberty can stretch to keeping places of recreation closed on Sundays , upholding the rights of preachers to speak in public places even if it causes an affray , and opposing the development of catholic schools because their teachers do not communicate the Bible without priestly mediation .
22	Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state .
23	But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started .
24	But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started .
25	So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg .
26	It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else .
27	If it has to tell a story , he wrote , it will be the story of the machine inside the ghost , of the ghost animated by the machine .
28	And if it topples over it certainly will .
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	What if it was n't ? he said .