Example sentences of "was if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 . |
| 2 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 3 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 4 | The Queen 's Aureole was if anything even more highly strung than Pinza . |
| 5 | If a section was held responsible for an offence ( as it was if someone outside the section was offended ) the victims would hold the section responsible ; but even though the section shaikh made the peace , he had no power to collect from the lineages in his section : he had to get the agreement of the lineage shaikhs , and they then collected from their members . |
| 6 | By analogy , it may sometimes happen that a message is improved by changing , say , an s into a G : my secretary once , misreading my writing , replaced ‘ Sod 's law ’ by ‘ God 's law ’ , and the sense was if anything improved . |
| 7 | She said her only hope of having the boys returned was if her husband had difficulty in looking after them . |
| 8 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 9 | It was if he was at home at St Andrews . |
| 10 | In fact the only excuse for not going out in every weather was if sharp edges were to be negotiated to caverns , and this , he warned for safety reasons . |
| 11 | The only problem was if — he corrected himself — when it came , which side turning , if any , would it use . |
| 12 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 13 | ‘ The only reason for the Prime Minister to make a statement was if it concerned a matter of grave constitutional importance . |
| 14 | ‘ My main thought was if I offer him my car how will I get to work tomorrow , and also if I give him the car will I be able to collect the insurance ? |
| 15 | However , the existing bus fleet was if anything even more worn out than the tram fleet and would have to be replaced before the tram conversion could commence . |
| 16 | The example quoted was if the accounting period ended on 30 September accounts had to be filed by 30 July and not 31 July . |
| 17 | Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine . |
| 18 | Elena 's cult was if anything more bizarre than her husband 's ; the claims made on her behalf were even less credible than the praise lavished on Nicolae . |
| 19 | It was if she knew a solution would be proposed . |
| 20 | With the second set of options ( long repayment period = low APR ) , the average repayment period chosen was if anything shorter than with the first ( short repayment period = low APR ) . |
| 21 | Father would not know what integrity was if it sneaked up and bit his backside . |
| 22 | What an incredibly complicated thing this baby business was if one did n't have a flair for it . |
| 23 | The first thing she asked was if I had done what I promised |
| 24 | Several times the steering wheel took on a wild life of its own as we crashed into an unnoticed pot-hole , and the windscreen wipers stuttered against the rain of dust and small stones that hurtled against the car in handfuls : it was if we were under fire . |
| 25 | It was if he had said : ‘ Look what I 've got now ; two for the price of one . ’ |
| 26 | The rise of republicanism was if anything even more dramatic . |
| 27 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 28 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 29 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 30 | During the 1970s there was no significant change in the level of health education and the real price of cigarettes was if anything falling . |