Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [conj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose one of the key factors of my whole industrial career has been that if an opportunity comes up , I grab it . |
| 2 | The initial reaction has been that if the Chancellor is only taking out a token sum in higher tax , then the scope for further cuts in interest rates has been severely diminished , and fixed-rate gilt-edged stocks were marked sharply lower . |
| 3 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 4 | Normally , you know where your husband 's been but if the husband 's away and you go in you do n't know where he 's been do you ? |
| 5 | What this suggests is that if the demonizing of the deviant other leads to suppression and even extermination , the colonizing of the deviant involves an assimilation which re-forms , ethically and literally , even as it re-presents . |