Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps if you spent less time lurking behind doors ? ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps if he followed one path , he would find a place where they came together ? |
| 4 | The 1944 Act was amended so that free milk was provided to pupils over the age of 7 only if they attended special schools or qualified on medical grounds . |
| 5 | The consequences of erecting barriers — even if we could do that — to produce and use fuel at a price that we could achieve only if we erected those barriers would have a direct effect on the cost of power . |
| 6 | The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't . |
| 7 | It was true only if one accepted varying degrees of an absolute . |
| 8 | If only if I had that ability ! |
| 9 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 10 | Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more . |
| 11 | So if we had two N A two S O four , that would be two times N A two you 've got four N As and two times the S O four . |
| 12 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 13 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 14 | So if you got more post in , or your productivity in the servicing sections is down , from two point seven it 's down actually at two point six is what we 're achieving , we 're marginally out . |
| 15 | So if you gave that person ten shares , gave ninety shares to somebody else it 's a hundred percent in total , but if that person then dies cos you do n't want any of his relatives to have it then there 's only the ninety shares remaining and ninety shares will be one hundred percent . |
| 16 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 17 | So if I made some guesses you might be able to answer . ’ |
| 18 | I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got |
| 19 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 20 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 21 | Concern centred on what effect this radioactive sea would have on the health of people in the area , especially if they ate large quantities of fish . |
| 22 | When lords met , especially if they spoke different languages , it was expected that their followings might quarrel . |
| 23 | Okay so I , what I 'd like you to do now is both write down if you had three pound sixty a week , how much would you spend on sweets , on presents , on stationery and how much would save |
| 24 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be best if we continued this conversation elsewhere . ’ |
| 26 | And would it be all right if they brought another couple of Conor 's mates ? |
| 27 | It would be dangerous to supply too much to South Korea since Rhee could not be trusted to behave responsibly if he possessed powerful forces . |
| 28 | ‘ Would you like me more if I had some schooling , Seb ? |
| 29 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think that you and Corosini would be better off if you forgot each other 's existence , ’ muttered Lucenzo . |