Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | of this er , you know , this if anybody had had any complaints |
2 | You 'd have had that one wrong if you 'd done that . |
3 | ‘ Look , we 're not interested if you 've broken some internal disciplinary code . |
4 | Complicated when it has to be written down to or detailed where there 's a lot of information to be taken in and it 's a lot easier if it 's done that way because people can refer back to it all the time . |
5 | Are , are you going to ring Martin and see if you can get some if he 's got any more ? |
6 | This might not matter too much if they have read all the competition copy first , but it is a point to watch . |
7 | Obviously I 'd be delighted if you choose to come this direction but I understand of course that you have other options to look at . |
8 | That 's the important phrase , and if you find it 's easier to keep it mobile if you 've taken some paracetamol or aspirin , then by all means do that . |
9 | We 're sorry if we 've caused any confusion . |
10 | If I 'd done that if I 'd done that be worse you do n't use bad language but he 'd be he 's he 'd be |
11 | He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties . |
12 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
13 | Thus a defendant who has no knowledge of the falsity ( and was not reckless as to it ) when the brochure was published , could still lie guilty if he had acquired that knowledge before the brochure was subsequently read . |
14 | ‘ You 'll be sorry later if you 've given that to me . |
15 | However , given the importance of the mortality record of the children of what we believe to be economically inactive , one parent families , any analysis of health inequalities will be seriously flawed if it fails to include this group . |
16 | The artist was — I 'm not sure if I 've got this right — I think it was — oh , it was Chinese or something — Ho Riet Minh . |
17 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
18 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
19 | I think it would be better if we stop seeing each other , I find I have a lot of work to do with my Alternative Maths , |
20 | It would have been better if we 'd got another word really . |
21 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
22 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
23 | It is also very useful if you need to perform some conversion operation on a file . |
24 | And er , it 's very good if you need to record that kind of information about people , but most of us do n't . |
25 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
26 | These little thumb print things along the , along the sides are called the marks and the down to the sea those marks disappear and you get this silvery appearance , so it 's very plain if you 've got these that the salmon has been up there just in the upper which is exactly we had , hope we had happened |
27 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
28 | planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ? |
29 | Finding helpers willing to act as car park attendants may be difficult if you intend to do this on a regular basis . |
30 | Once again that 's another one which is just a glance at the , at the programme if it 's presented one way and very difficult if it 's presented another way . |