Example sentences of "[conj] if [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , one of the researchers ' most important tasks is to ascertain for my benefit what kind of conversation we 'll be likely to have — whether the guest talks nineteen to the dozen , in which case I 'll need to prepare lots of questions , or if they take ten minutes to say ‘ Good evening ’ — in which case I 'll start praying . |
| 2 | Or if you have three works which are performed live in PRS-licensed premises at least twelve times over the course of two years , you can also become a member of the society . |
| 3 | If the Minister had bothered to listen to the submissions made to him or if he cared one iota for the industry , he would know that the figures come from the farmers . |
| 4 | so that if they charge twenty quid when they start |
| 5 | And the theory was that if you served thirty years in the Ce Central African police , you 'd be given a section of land in what later became Rhodesia . |
| 6 | ‘ The collection was so comprehensive , so beautifully put together ’ , says Richardson , ‘ that if you subtracted one drawing , the totality would suffer . |
| 7 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 8 | A standard story , repeated by travellers and natives alike , holds that if you travel 50 miles in Britain you will encounter a different sign language that can not be understood in the region you have just left . |
| 9 | ( Do you fantasise that if you lost two stone , you would suddenly be happy , self-confident , popular and successful ? |
| 10 | One of the greatest things that I have become aware of is that if you have eight people to dinner , one or two of them will be vegetarians . |
| 11 | And I think that in the balance , that if you have two sites in e the area of search that are equal in all other respects , except that one is closer to York than the other , then the environmental considerations of that site being closer erm to York would weigh in its favour . |
| 12 | Erm , I also think that if you have two hours , a video and a talk would be better . |
| 13 | But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other . |
| 14 | And it may be , that if you have three tellies in the house , you 'll have to pay forty pounds extra . |
| 15 | I believe that if I have one person in each branch whom I can support and direct to implement the branch recruitment strategy we will make some progress . |
| 16 | I believe that if I have one person in each branch whom I can support and direct to implement the branch recruitment strategy we will make some progress . |
| 17 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 18 | How does one decide whether company directors are functionally more important than their workers , and if they receive five times as much as workers , does this mean they are five times more important ? |
| 19 | erm and ask them you know and say , and if they want two years , say well you know I 'm pretty keen on this , now what , you know I necessarily expect you to have me |
| 20 | pint they buy , and if they buy five pints |
| 21 | the butcher , on the corner of Street , the little tiny grocers where you used to go and fe your mother used to go and fetch her groceries , and if she spent three shillings in the shop she was a good customer . |
| 22 | If it be light , dry and free from bugs , if it be central in position , and if it contain three rooms , it will be eagerly sought for and hard to find . |
| 23 | And if it means fifty percent of whatever we get in capital receipts going to pay off our debts , it 's a worthwhile attitude , and I think we ought to take our debts responsible . |
| 24 | I would always be ‘ starting the diet tomorrow ’ and if I ate one thing ‘ out of order ’ , the diet would collapse and I would eat everything in sight until I could hardly move . |
| 25 | And if I put six weeks , now this 'll overlap slightly with the present one , that does n't matter the D S S do n't give two hoots from that point of view , and that 'll then run out six weeks , which is about the beginning of September |
| 26 | And if I have two weeks time then we get paid er thirty six hour . |
| 27 | And if I have one person dearer to me than another , why must that person be singled out for an object of your violence ? |
| 28 | and if , and if I do two Beta award weekends |
| 29 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 30 | They 're the classic example of a band that thinks with one brain , and if you took one component out it would n't happen . ’ |