Example sentences of "[verb] if it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a procession is organised without notice , no offence is committed if it was not ‘ reasonably practicable ’ to give such notice , either at all , or within the specified six clear days . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it was totally successful but I enjoyed it . |
| 3 | You may be right , but your cynicism would be easier to accept if it was universally applied . |
| 4 | I found the homework , homework diary was useful because I used to check in , end of every of week they used to know if it was n't there I 'd want to know why it was n't done ! |
| 5 | She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy . |
| 6 | You 'd be walking if it was n't for me . |
| 7 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 8 | One is forced to ask what OSF had to gain and wonders if it was n't some kind of supralegal manoeuvre to put pressure on Addamax and Sun because they 've got something on the OSF contingent . |
| 9 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 10 | As the monsoon season ran its usual course in Snowdonia , anybody with any sense fled to warmer climes while the rest of us sat and talked about what we would do if it was n't raining . |
| 11 | But I do n't know what I 'd do if it were n't for Sean . |
| 12 | As he examined the clutter , however , Rostov was inclined to wonder if it was entirely the result of essential additions to survey gear . |
| 13 | He says that the building fits in with its surroundings , and would never have been allowed to be built if it was n't safe . |
| 14 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 15 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ Luther sent me to see if it was all right , for him to come and get himself something to eat . ’ |
| 17 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 18 | Seeking escape routes I found the only other Customs Waterguard Station , seemingly more unpopular than Heathrow , available at that time was Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides and when I rang HQ one day to see if it was still open . |
| 19 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 20 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 21 | If it , I mean if it were like today it will be lovely . |
| 22 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 23 | The order was suspended and the Legal Aid Board was given leave to object if it was so minded . |
| 24 | I would n't get , I would n't mind if it was bloody six o'clock but it was n't it was more like half past . |
| 25 | oh great , any body want a bobby Batman sock ? , phew dear his feet smell I remember seeing it , I do n't remember if it was yesterday , cos I remember seeing the games and all that , I did n't throw it away |
| 26 | He would have laughed if it were not for the echo of the screaming in his head . |
| 27 | She vowed if it was humanly possible , no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor . |
| 28 | Shannon held out her hand to both newcomers , wondering if it was simply her imagination that saw a coolly speculative gleam in Marianne 's eyes . |
| 29 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 30 | I have put a wee bit of weight on , so I was wondering if it was maybe |