Example sentences of "[was/were] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it were if it were to be slashed or erm you know and er on Monday evening we would have to get a screen we would have to replace that screen immediately . |
| 2 | Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish . |
| 3 | You know if if they were if they were in erm in full-time education at the time . |
| 4 | You still had to ask your Dad for a top off the egg if you were if you were a poor family . |
| 5 | And then the er the older ones when they were if if they were sitting on the walls outside , the erm deck level flats , again they were either disturbing the people there or , the people were out shouting at them to get away and sit on their own walls and things like that . |
| 6 | And even left them with a neighbour if they were If your neighbour was going to be in . |
| 7 | If we were if we were doing velocity time graphs and things . |
| 8 | And you were If you had a spare room you were all Well I think you were forced to take in troops and we had Elizabeth , a baby , and we had lodgers , nearly all the wartime . |
| 9 | And some aero aero aeroplane erm g er er what er I think they were If I remember rightly , they were the er Oh dear . |
| 10 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 11 | and er if they were if they were n't making a reasonable amount you know , eight and a half per cent , ten and a half on some of them . |
| 12 | Right , the arch braces of course had to be put in because they were if you look at it you 'll see that they were actually sawn off . |
| 13 | Well if you were if she were your daughter Jackie what would you have thought ? |
| 14 | Not on the amount were if you think the health 's , I mean the Health Service buy sort of forty at a time , erm , so , you never know . |
| 15 | I do n't know why he makes you do that I mean it 's if that was something the I mean all Tony used to ever say when we were at traffic lights were if you want to you can put the handbrake on at this set of traffic lights if they were downhill |
| 16 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |
| 17 | I mean if there were if there were . |
| 18 | Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 . |
| 19 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 20 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 21 | The Queen 's Aureole was if anything even more highly strung than Pinza . |
| 22 | If a section was held responsible for an offence ( as it was if someone outside the section was offended ) the victims would hold the section responsible ; but even though the section shaikh made the peace , he had no power to collect from the lineages in his section : he had to get the agreement of the lineage shaikhs , and they then collected from their members . |
| 23 | By analogy , it may sometimes happen that a message is improved by changing , say , an s into a G : my secretary once , misreading my writing , replaced ‘ Sod 's law ’ by ‘ God 's law ’ , and the sense was if anything improved . |
| 24 | She said her only hope of having the boys returned was if her husband had difficulty in looking after them . |
| 25 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 26 | It was if he was at home at St Andrews . |
| 27 | In fact the only excuse for not going out in every weather was if sharp edges were to be negotiated to caverns , and this , he warned for safety reasons . |
| 28 | The only problem was if — he corrected himself — when it came , which side turning , if any , would it use . |
| 29 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 30 | ‘ The only reason for the Prime Minister to make a statement was if it concerned a matter of grave constitutional importance . |