Example sentences of "if it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexei nodded as if it was of no consequence . |
| 2 | So it was a remarkable jump into the headlines and popular acceptance , even if it was of a rather limited nature . |
| 3 | If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal . |
| 4 | Light had come into the world again , even if it was to the accompaniment of tap-dancing elves . |
| 5 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 6 | You must be glad the terrorists have gone away , even if it was at a terrible cost to your country . |
| 7 | The likes of Polanski , Nicholson and Hopper all talked freedom — even if it was at the movies — and that was music to the ears of those who followed the anti-war , hippie-inspired trend of throwing off inhibitions , of which there were plenty of public demonstrations when the beautiful people gathered , be it Los Angeles , New York , London or Paris . |
| 8 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 9 | If it was at the bottom where it 's flat , where you just , you 're just coming down , and then you started to go up again , just at the bottom there , it 's , it 's zero for |
| 10 | ‘ If the craft was sitting on a launch pad — nose cone upwards — and if it was on a planet where the gravity was really powerful , so you were pulled back into your seat exactly the way you were when you were accelerating hard … . ’ |
| 11 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |
| 12 | . If it was on a P D P Eleven then the addressing would only be a matter of si sixteen bit as well . |
| 13 | Even though I know Tina 's is C two one one Y C L if it was on a different car I 'd probably look at it and think |
| 14 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 15 | Well if it was on the floor and somebody wants it they 'll have to have it wo n't they ? |
| 16 | If it was for a film and it was a good part , then yes I would . |
| 17 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 18 | See I did n't , I , I , and he gave me , I was here , oh I do n't know if it was about a fortnight ago I was here . |
| 19 | It would be better to make the discharge below the level of the grating of the gully even if it was over the gully before , to prevent leaves and garden debris blocking the gully . |
| 20 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 21 | Despite the scenery , however , my shin felt as if it was in a red-hot clamp , with someone turning the screw . |
| 22 | She was the product of a broken home who wanted romance and a happy family home , even if it was in a palace . |
| 23 | And I think it sort of sort of ripened the fruit better than if it was in a cool shop . |
| 24 | . Now that normal heart you saw , you saw that normal heart , I would ask you if it was in a twenty five four year old man , do you think that man is alive or dead ? |
| 25 | I think if I entered in , thinking like if it was in a good cause , |
| 26 | If it was in the ‘ MEDIEVAL HISTORY ’ section it was near the end of March , but if it fell in the ‘ TRAVEL ’ section , then it was probably September . |
| 27 | However he just put in a test dose to see if it was in the right place . |
| 28 | And of course , if it was in the paper it must be true . |
| 29 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |
| 30 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |