If this country adopted a universal basic income policy / it would give people the flexibility / they need to retrain for new careers or care for family members.

If the city had replaced some of the concrete in residential streets near drainage areas / with permeable pavement, / flooding could be controlled better.

For instance, if the great Renaissance artists like Ghiberti or Michelangelo had been born / only 50 years before they were, / the culture of artistic patronage would not have been in place / to fund or shape their great achievements.

If only the costs of prescription drugs were low enough for everyone in the world / to have access to the medications they need.

If it weren’t for the commercial enterprises that produced those records, / we would know far, far less about the cultures that they came from.

Dennis worked so incessantly that it was as if he thought time were a precious commodity / that should never be wasted by a single human being, especially himself.

If physicists, for example, were to concentrate on exchanging email and electronic preprints / with other physicists around the world working in the same specialized subject area, / they would likely devote less time, and be less receptive to new ways of looking at the world.

Had the Soviets not invaded Manchukuo after the bombing of Hiroshima, / they might not have had much of a claim to continued influence in East Asia / and Korea might have remained united.