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 .
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