Terms for subject Cliche / convention containing если бы

Russian	English
вот было бы здорово, если бы ...!	wouldn't it be cool + verb? (He began sculpting when he was a teenager, attending art school for a time in his 20s, before landing a job with San Diego Halloween design company Disguise. One day around this time, he had an epiphany in a department store. “They had hired an actress to pretend to be a mannequin — and she was really good at it,” McMullen recalls. “For some reason that stuck with me, I was like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to have a mannequin that looks so real, that people would think that it was?’ Kind of like an inverse of that experience. I started coming up with this, like, crazy idea of a hyper-realistic, pose-able mannequin.” reviewjournal.com ART Vancouver)
если бы!	I wish it did! ("Is our weekend forecast looking as good?" "I wish it did! Unfortunately, there's rain in it." ART Vancouver)
если бы	had + subject 1 + past participle, subject 2 + would have + past participle (Had the referendum passed, grocers, convenience marts and drugstores would have charged shoppers 20 cents for each bag they were provided at checkout counters. ART Vancouver)
если бы все ... так ... относились к своей работе	I wish all ... would be as ... about their work. (I wish all young researchers would be as thorough and objective about their work as John. ART Vancouver)
если бы у меня был	wish I had (Lovely tree. Wish I had my own to decorate! ART Vancouver)
если бы я мог	wish I could (нереальное желание: Wish I could be a fly on the wall for this conference. ART Vancouver)