Example sentences of "[adv] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if a few of our political masters were to read this book , and learn from it , they would recognise the dangers inherent in gambling with our children 's future for ideological gain . |
| 2 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
| 3 | A very frustrated Carrick supporter Perhaps if a few more ‘ frustrated supporters ’ came through the turnstiles on a Saturday the problem would n't exist . |
| 4 | Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples . |
| 5 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 6 | Perhaps if the term is replaced by ‘ compensatory ’ or ‘ therapeutic ’ such reading will be considered more sympathetically . |
| 7 | Perhaps if the word ‘ avouch ’ were in common use , so that the reproach would be ‘ But you avouched ’ it would be more obvious to us that saying ‘ I know ’ is doing something . |
| 8 | Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book . |
| 9 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 10 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 11 | I know it sounds silly , but perhaps if the ceilings was lower it would look big |
| 12 | Oh well that 's good enough then , I thought perhaps if the taxpayer had to pay , I would n't be very pleased |
| 13 | I suppose some people who are in receipt of social benefits might say their benefits are very , very small , come nowhere near covering the true cost to them and their families are having to foot the bill for a lot of what 's done , and sometimes , when maybe their allowances are cut by a little bit , they might think ‘ erm well perhaps if the Oxfordshire County Councillors had cut a little bit of their attendance allowances maybe I could have little bit more ’ . |
| 14 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 15 | Basically if the band stays together then we 'll just still know the same people because |
| 16 | In the optimality theory , this is determined by the reservation price rule sell all if the price is above the reservation price , sell nothing otherwise . |
| 17 | Competitors are close-at-hand ( this means the trader can adjust his prices , if necessary — eg if a neighbouring stall is selling tomatoes at 30p a pound , the trader can reduce his tomatoes to the same price or lower ) |
| 18 | Information to back up any claims made about the product ( eg if a label says ‘ New for slimmers ’ it must explain why by listing how many calories it contains ) |
| 19 | There should be evidence of the selected strategies being used properly eg if an analytical approach is being used for finding the minimum surface area of a container , while investigating containers , it would be expected that the steps of the process were correct . |
| 20 | Survival was significantly better for patients without regional lymph node metastases ( stage 0 , I , IIA ( n=61 ) : 5 year survival 30% ) and even better if the tumour was restricted to the submucosa ( stage 0 , I ( n=12 ) : 5 year survival 63% ) . |
| 21 | I told my mother that as Thomas would be in strange surroundings and might wake in the night I thought it better if the two of you shared a room . |
| 22 | ‘ It may better if the child can get to know both parents where possible , even though many unmarried mums are happier on their own . ’ |
| 23 | … traditional budgeting also has the defects of its virtues … comparing this year with last year may not mean much if the past was a mistake and the future is likely to be a bigger one . |
| 24 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 25 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 26 | While he may fell constrained electorally and by the highly effective brewers ' lobby to keep the increase on drink to the rate of inflation , nobody will worry too much if the duty of cigarettes is increased , as widely predicted , by double the inflation rate . |
| 27 | Although this comes more naturally if the shots are primarily of human activity , it is equally true if the emphasis is on places rather than people . |
| 28 | The same critics pointed to the obsolete Victorian rationale of the Commission — which was established to plant trees for wooden ships and pit-props in a war in which timber would be a strategic material — and wondered aloud if the organisation as well as its activities should not be reformed or abolished . |
| 29 | Women who have done things to children get a bad time inside if the other women know and can get hold of them . |
| 30 | Where children have failed consistently , remove their feeling of failure by giving a series of short regular lessons , designed to produce success — for instance , three simple words daily if the children are aged 6–8 , four for the 9–10 range , and six for the 11–13 children . |