Example sentences of "[coord] if it [be] just " in BNC.
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1 | I wondered if she really felt strongly about this or if it was just a habit to sound as if she did . |
2 | Moreover , reform is ruled out because either the new second chamber would be less democratic than the Commons in which case it should not be able to delay legislation , or if it was just as democratic then there is no point in having two chambers , the more so since there is the potential problem of constitutional deadlock between them . |
3 | And if it 's just a matter of lots of calculations , any sort of processor will polish it off in next to no time . ’ |
4 | All I did is I look at what I 've got and if it 's just a single term like that |
5 | ‘ And if it 's just personal feeling , it 's difficult to see why it should happen now . |
6 | You know , and if it is just the way it happens , particularly when you get a er , an envelope with says here you are , have free drinks , you know that some people , they do n't drink at all so they can go to somebody else and say here you are . |
7 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
8 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
9 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
10 | I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive . |
11 | If you all disappeared together that would be , that is a fair criticism of the training department , but if it 's just the fact that all you 're doing is switching off then that 's O K because you ca n't help it anyway . |
12 | Thus , an individual merger might be seen , as an individual merger , to be totally innocuous , but if it is just one more merger among a spate , then the overall trend towards the monopolisation of industry in general may be worrying . |