Example sentences of "[be] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 2 | ‘ Dorothy , I think the best thing would be if you went home now and reported to me here , first thing tomorrow morning . |
| 3 | Actually , the best thing would be if I could get back to you . |
| 4 | Think where you 'd be if you 'd chosen him . ’ |
| 5 | They are less fit than they need to be if they are to become international juniors . |
| 6 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 7 | It need not be if the authorities do not acknowledge a responsibility for control of inflation or if they believe that exchange rates ( just like changes in wage rates , or indirect taxes ) do not influence inflation but rather have their effect on relative prices . |
| 8 | More soon of this exciting saga , which is due to be turned into a TV epic or will be if we can fix up a deal with anyone . |
| 9 | What a beneficial change it would be if instead it was acknowledged that these issues present tragic choices between compelling arguments which are held on both sides in good faith . |
| 10 | Eurotunnel should now produce calculations showing what the effect would be if the Safety Authority were to insist on segregation . |
| 11 | The danger to an investor would be if the investment trust 's net asset value fell so much that it could not afford to meet its commitments to the zero dividend preference shareholders . |
| 12 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 13 | Where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes ? |
| 14 | So I must restate the question as ‘ What would my priorities be if I were now what the Minister of Health was then ? ’ |
| 15 | So , ‘ What would my priorities be if the bad dream came true , and I were Minister of Health now ? ’ |
| 16 | Alas , we are not able to report how much cheaper the cars would be if all the current goodies decamped to the options list . |
| 17 | The ‘ touchstone ’ would be if the Attorney-General was less able , by virtue of the actions of the Independent , to obtain or continue an injunction against the Guardian and the Observer . |
| 18 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 19 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 20 | How wretched it would be if , because it had no other solution to the problems of Iraq , the world pretended to believe him . |
| 21 | Not a dangerous disposition I think ; though it might be if my nature were more masculine & daring . |
| 22 | ‘ Or would be if you had white hair and put on a bit of weight . |
| 23 | And yet — what kind of a monster would he be if he ran off in the opposite direction ? |
| 24 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 25 | He wondered what Vic 's reaction might be if he ever found out or , horror of horrors , caught him red-handed ? |
| 26 | What a good investment a greenhouse can be if you are prepared to invest the time necessary to make it work for you . |
| 27 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 28 | The people of Northern Ireland naturally and rightly reason that if what they have suffered at the hands of the southern-spawned IRA , they have suffered while a majority , how much greater would that persecution not be if they ever entered a state in which they were a perpetual minority . |
| 29 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 30 | The best feeling would be if I could just dismiss everyone else from my mind . |