Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The copy deadline is the end of August — or sooner if you can do it . |
| 2 | The problems and abuses connected with the laws of settlement will be discussed below ; for the moment we are concerned to stress that persons with a settlement in a parish had a real claim to relief should misfortune or simply age overtake them , or indeed if they could find no work or even none at wages sufficient for the support of the family . |
| 3 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 4 | A particular problem which frequently arises is a claim by an employee that even if he must have realised , in accordance with the principle laid down in the Printers and Finishers case , that he was under a duty to maintain a confidence , such duty was in fact overridden by the way in which his employer acted towards the information ie that the employer is estopped from now relying on confidence . |
| 5 | And Cardiff knew at last that even if he could ask the question , it could never provide him with an answer . |
| 6 | A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all . |
| 7 | But , but in writing historical erm , analysis and , and biography , presumably people , I mean , people ca n't help er writing , writing history , and trying to answer questions , like , why did Woodrow Wilson erm , not the fourteen points through , and presumably , one possible explanation is the kind of Freud Bullett approach , and presumably if you can find erm , relevant data and if you convince , and if you can convince that that 's plausible , it 's a legitimate thing to attempt to do . |
| 8 | And so if we could start from these unquestionable little bits of reality , and build everything out of this by pure logical construction , we would have shown that the world is coherent and logical , and we would have shown that ordinary beliefs erm were not open to doubt , were rational and certain . |
| 9 | The R Y A does n't need an enormous subscription income and so if we could increase personal membership to say four hundred and eighty thousand , which happens to be the aggregate membership of our member clubs , this could be at a very much lower individual subscription and this in turn would facilitate selling membership to the nearly two million yachts persons who are not members of clubs . |
| 10 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 11 | Over-provision has a sort of knock-on effect that er whatever we provide this time , we shall be asked to provide at the next revision of the structure plan and so if we can keep some land back this time , then that might be what we offer next time , we have to roll forward the structure plan . |
| 12 | They might think they 're getting away with it , a lot of people who , who , I mean being unemployed is n't , you tend , people tend to feel devalued and so if they can think oh , they 've put one over on that , on the er , benefit office , then they 'll go and brag down the pub about it . |
| 13 | And perhaps if you could stop the snow and see us all safely back to the quarry as well , that would be a big help . |
| 14 | And perhaps if I can understand it more , then |
| 15 | Meditate for at least a minute and longer if you can manage it . |
| 16 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 17 | I look at him — when I can bear to and frankly if you can persuade him to use a clean T-shirt you 'll be doing all of us a favour — I look at him and I remember dear little chubby hands clutching one , and the way their faces used to smell of soap and milk . |
| 18 | And now if you 'll excuse me , I wo n't stay any longer . |
| 19 | And now if you 'll excuse me , I really must go to bed and nurse this throat before I lose my voice altogether . |
| 20 | Wedding photographs also look lovely when given a floral border , and particularly if you can press some of the flowers from the wedding bouquet . |
| 21 | He had been too busy with his music composition to miss the books , and even if he could afford to play golf his hands would n't let him . |
| 22 | And even if she could escape , what was there to go to ? |
| 23 | and even if you may name them , there 'd be a gang on you ! |
| 24 | ‘ And even if you could get a harness on it , how could you get it to pull a cart ? ’ |
| 25 | Cos well if you could have the kids you know ! |
| 26 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 27 | And then if we would find totally unacceptable we certainly would n't be prepared to do that |
| 28 | and then if we can afford to send him privately we can just take his name off . |
| 29 | So that 's what , that 's the way I 'm hoping that we can proceed , as I say , yes with your assistance and then if we can get through that business , then equally tomorrow morning , we 'll be doing a similar thing , we we 'll issue another revised programme which will er take in some of the outstanding stuff that 's fell off . |
| 30 | and then if it 'd go up to about one seven she said , and I could n't sell it here she said , I 'm not Chester prices I 'm just that bit cheaper . |