Example sentences of "be [adj] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 2 | I am sorry if it means opposing the official candidate , but I would vote for Frank Field . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am sorry if it seems I have tricked you , my dear Watson . |
| 4 | It is not intended to be and I am sorry if it appears so . |
| 5 | ‘ We have had our differences and I am sorry if it has caused offence . ’ |
| 6 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 7 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 8 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 9 | A And then again have chair , you know , pe , people are reticent of it , they 're frightened if it goes |
| 10 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 11 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 12 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 13 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 14 | I am intrigued if it does n't like wind rock , how it manages to survive on the drove roads over the downs that where Gerard . |
| 15 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 16 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 17 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 18 | Fifteen years … would have been ten if it had n't been a gun … poor creature … |
| 19 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I 'm sorry if it does n't meet with your approval , Mr Denner , ’ she snapped icily , ‘ but we ca n't all afford brand-new Range Rovers ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm sorry if it upsets you , but I assure you I 'm suffering for it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it embarrassed you … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it did n't provide a job for you , ’ he said , relieved , and looked round for Amanda , who had used the surface tension of the moment to walk away . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry if it seems almost unnatural . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable . ’ |
| 26 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 27 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 28 | Perhaps , in this fictional world ( it must be fictional if it has dragons in it ) the knight is seeking a magic pineapple , hoarded in a dragon 's cave . |
| 29 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 30 | Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ? |