Example sentences of "[conj] if [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but where if they sold little packets of sweets |
| 2 | And every proof or dis-proof can be readily evaded , if one questions the truth of its premisses , or the validity of its type of inference , or if one finds new senses in which its terms may be used . |
| 3 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 4 | This might happen if you give money away to members of your family or if you buy expensive items in order to reduce your savings . |
| 5 | If you are looking after ageing relatives , or if you have young children , looking after an adult disabled dependant as well can add a heavy burden to an already crowded day . |
| 6 | There are thought to be risks of developing cancer of the breast or lining of the womb as a result of HRT , and it is not recommended if there is a family history of heart disease , breast or womb cancer , or if you have high blood pressure , blood clotting problems , a heart disorder or gall bladder disease . |
| 7 | It is unreasonable to expect them to tackle problems through their consultants , although if they had independent supervisors this might be possible . |
| 8 | Now I 've always taken that to mean that if they had big faith , they would have been alright . |
| 9 | Witnesses were warned that if they gave false evidence they would suffer the same verdict as that given to the accused ( Mark 14:56–7 ; Matt. |
| 10 | British standards for veal production will not , however , be reduced and consumers can be sure that if they buy British veal it will have been humanely produced . |
| 11 | They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 13 | Such a roundabout way of replication means that if one gets similar results in different species , they are worthy of publication in their own right . |
| 14 | Unlike the Labour party , for which this is a matter of great difficulty , my party and its predecessor have never shrunk from the fact that if one has effective devolution , and an effective Parliament with the powers that the Bill would establish , the case for the retention of a Scottish Secretary of State in Cabinet would be weakened . |
| 15 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |
| 16 | Because you would be saying well if we have classes this provides us with a way forward for the future in a way that if we have absolute egalitarianism that , how would we make progress through to socialism ? |
| 17 | Then I thought that if someone wore embroidered lilies on jeans , it would be noticeable , and so on . |
| 18 | He had little doubt that if anything went wrong Buckmaster would let him drop over the cliff . |
| 19 | And it 's going back to the point that Mr Curtis I think misunderstood me , that 's basically that if you concentrate new growth in one location you have the ability to plan to serve that development by public transport , whereas if you spread it out to all the points of the compass , you know , two hundred houses in one direction of York , two hundred in the opposite direction would become very mor more difficult to serve than would a concentrated er chunk of development , and that 's as simple as that . |
| 20 | And , do n't forget that if you make substantial improvements to your home , it may increase its value . |
| 21 | To get the very best results you will need to observe closely , compare , make notes , and use your judgement while bearing in mind that if you make heavy demands you will have to feed well . |
| 22 | This allegedly , erm , protests the , protects the citizen , and the , the logic of this argument , is really the Hobbesian argument , that if you let ordinary individuals have firearms they 'll go round killing each other , or so it is alleged . |
| 23 | Quoting Bertrand Russell 's dictum that if you hold unorthodox opinions in England you will be disregarded at first , persecuted if you persist , but finally canonised if you live long enough , he comments : ‘ having experienced the first two stages , I seem to be approaching the third . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah that would , that If you brought proper weed |
| 25 | Mr Scannell warns that if you own French property you must plan ahead for inheritance — under French law your children will have first crack at the property . |
| 26 | So here he has erm quite a long discussion in the fact that if you have inexperienced people , they will often make the make a quick initial assessment of a situation which is being and rejected by a more experienced person . |
| 27 | As a result women themselves might well come to believe ( incorrectly ) that ‘ it is written in the Guru Nanak 's Granth Sahib ( the holy book of the Sikhs ) that if you have bad Karma you have more girls than boys ’ . |
| 28 | As a demographer with a quarter of a century 's experience I know that if I encounter finite numbers of a supposedly rare occurrence , the true rate is higher . |
| 29 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 30 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |