Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [be] talking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The string retainer has been screwed down a little too low , resulting in quite a severe break angle over the nut , but if I 'm talking about that as a problem , then you can see there 's really not much wrong with the rest of the LX .
2 And with this go , I 've just got to go on through this , the average weight of an consignment Express , or on next day is twenty eight kilos , and if you 're talking about two day , three day , it was ninety nine kilos .
3 ‘ Well , if you 're talking about masterful , ’ the blonde said vaguely .
4 If you 're talking about non-government ways to do it , then I think that in any authority there are lot of voluntary organizations struggling to make provision of this kind .
5 To illustrate this with an example , on the objectual interpretation " ( Ex ) x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance is Hades ' is false , because there is no such entity ; but on the substitutional interpretation a replacement of x in " x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades " with " Cerberus " yields a true proposition ; which , if we are talking about Greek mythology , is of course as it should be .
6 If we 're talking about outside auditors , whether it 's a letter , a fax or whatever wo n't make any difference as they wo n't quibble over things like order forms and stuff .
7 I mean if we 're talking about existing staff , then it may not be enormous but there is an in there is a cost involved with it ,
8 Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat .
9 As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked .
10 So I mean and if a and surely if they 're talking about actual support in terms of food and money I mean can they really .
11 The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos .
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