Example sentences of "could be [verb] if [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clever idea , but there is a feeling that this could be broken if not treated with care . |
| 2 | Frankly there just is n't the money to go around , and kids are being made to suffer for long periods of time er for operations which really could be done if only they had the money . |
| 3 | Patients could be retreated if more than 4 weeks had elapsed since the initial treatment . |
| 4 | Doctors and Ambulancemen fear lives could be lost if seriously ill patients have to be ferried twenty-five miles for treatment . |
| 5 | What these experiments can not reveal is whether both the equivalence and distinctiveness treatments are effective in producing changes in the discriminability of the cues — clearly the observed difference could be obtained if just one of these treatments worked . |
| 6 | Mosimann suggests that some of these problems could be overcome if particularly sensitive areas are avoided , especially those above 2000 m above sea-level , and if the topsoil is restored after levelling , etc . |
| 7 | There is every reason to suppose that changes such as those in Fig. 24.4 are intrinsic to the dynamics , not something that could be eliminated if only one had better control of the apparatus . |
| 8 | However , it was also accepted that such programs could be protected if not dictated by idea . |