Example sentences of "if it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 2 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 3 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 4 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 5 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 6 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 7 | The wall opposite the sink and the window was covered with an oak dresser , very old and probably valuable , if it had been possible to remove it from the wall without its collapse , and the original row of bells still hung over the door each with its Gothic script ; drawing room , dining room , study , nursery . |
| 8 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 9 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 10 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 11 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 12 | If it had been possible to study the whole country cheaply and in sufficient detail they would have done so . |
| 13 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 14 | But if it had been necessary for me to do so , I would have concluded that the whole loss should be borne by Union Discount . |
| 15 | Since I am persuaded by Mr. Lester 's first argument on article 10 , I do not propose to review further the alternatives ; but if it had been necessary to make a decision I , for my part , would have found the task more suited to Parliament than to this court . |
| 16 | If it had been necessary I would have unhesitatingly given leave for an amendment to be made . |
| 17 | There is , needless to say , no suggestion that the Bank of England are in contempt , and , for the same reasons as have led me to conclude that the injunction is overridden , I should have had no hesitation in varying the injunction if it had been necessary to do so . |
| 18 | She no longer needed to jump in the swimming pool to raise £5 , though if it had been necessary she would probable have done it : " You believe in God but you also use every means possible to raise funds . |
| 19 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 20 | ‘ He has now had an X-ray , but if it had been serious , it might have been too late . ’ |
| 21 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 22 | How much ‘ Bomber ’ Harris would have appreciated Gulf War laser technology if it had been available then ! |
| 23 | There is no trace of a lease for the adjacent Coniston Manor at this period though one would have expected the Champions to have taken this " sett " if it had been available . |
| 24 | In other words , while the court would not have imposed liability in respect of the decision itself ( except if it had been perverse ) failure to go through the preliminary steps of obtaining essential information could have grounded liability . |
| 25 | If it had been index-linked , it would now be about £100,000 . |
| 26 | If it had been windy our votes would have been blown all over the forest . ’ |
| 27 | Now if it had been opposite and hypotenuse which one would you have used ? |
| 28 | Their Lordships said that if it had been saleable only at a ‘ throw away ’ price , that would indicate that it was not of merchantable quality . |
| 29 | She was wearing a chartreuse dress that looked as if it had been spray-painted on . |
| 30 | Even so , the potential gain from a lower rate — even if it had been negotiable through the International Monetary Fund — is not easy to estimate because of the problems of relative elasticities of demand for both exports and imports and the problem of the cost effects of higher import prices , not least as they would have affected wage bargaining [ Ball , 1967 ] . |