On November 5, the circulation became elongated, and the NHC commented that "if [it] were not the remnants of Mitch, [they] would probably not be calling [it] a tropical cyclone".
A friend commented that if he were a composer this festival would make him want to tear up everything on his desk and start over.
"I always said," she later commented, "that if they opened a script and saw, 'a girl appears in camiknickers', they used to send for me".
A colleague commented that if mathematics were music, then Voevodsky would be a musician who invented his own key to play in.
The court commented that if it was to be persuaded that the law was incompatible with the convention it would need a lot more medical and scientific evidence than was before it.
The state coroner, Mark Johns, commented that if Abrahimzadeh had happened to turn up at the officer's desk when he was looking at his file, he would have been able to deal with the matter.
After the trade, Kidd commented that if someone like Keith Van Horn misses four shots in a row, he's going to give him the ball again because he has confidence in his ability.
In a 1959 interview with Mike Wallace, Mr. Serling commented that if, as a television writer, you had "the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant, then you're in deep trouble".
Various literary agents weighed in, and all over town people sadly shook their heads and commented that if you take away the exercise of taste and judgment from publishing you are left with... what?
Kirsch might more appropriately have commented that if Sylvia Plath had not taken her own life, he would not be writing a review of yet two more biographies of the poet.
In fact, on numerous occasions he had commented that if he had been in charge, he would have been willing and able to fix things and make life better in the branch.
