Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I stick to 11 players we will not get promoted . |
| 2 | So that that bit you , you got no problem with it , if I keep to positive numbers inside there , have you ? |
| 3 | But if you stick to commonsense rules which you 're brought up to believe , or most people are , then I think it would work better , because you 're in a sort of rules — in the same environment … |
| 4 | GARDEN CENTRES Okay for plants and fertiliser , but if you go to such places you will probably be served by a weekend youngster on slave wages , who would n't know a Koi from a goldfish . |
| 5 | If you go to those lengths , you are obviously taking a big financial risk . |
| 6 | And a kind of consensus develops amongst right-minded people in your neighbourhood , that if you keep to certain rules and rituals then by God , by magic , you 'll get to heaven , you wo n't even have to die . |
| 7 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they 're violently opposed to women 's liberation , they hate the name women 's liberation , because they 're very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home . |
| 8 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 9 | If you talk to most ex-smackheads , they all fall back on something . |
| 10 | If we refer to such objects as " the same " , this is simply because we " confound the succession with the identity " . |
| 11 | If we point to those aspects of the addict 's experience which seem to him to confirm his beliefs , we will seem to be making an apology for the addict . |
| 12 | If we turn to volcanic deposits , which can hardly be regarded as exceptional in earth history , we can find many examples of great thicknesses accumulating very rapidly indeed . |
| 13 | If we look to existing trends for advice , it seems likely that the coffin stools , hearse and candles would have been kept at the church and put into place by the parish clerk and/or sexton . |
| 14 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 15 | We intend to allow school sixth forms to open their doors if they wish to older students , and to accept training credits or fees from them . |
| 16 | If they kept to German names and were captured they would be treated as traitors . |
| 17 | Anonymous accounts could still be held if they related to legal proceedings such as divorce or inheritance . |
| 18 | Former tenants of the flats have been moved to other council accommodation either is Haslemere , or if they preferred to other parts of Waverley . |
| 19 | These pressures are valuable if they lead to early considerations of teacher skills in BSL , pupils ' needs for BSL and manual English , and assessment of achievement levels as a result of the use of BSL . |
| 20 | If it came to unknown backgrounds , after all , no one seemed to know too much about Wheeler 's . |
| 21 | ‘ If it happens to both machines it 's obvious the common factor is you , yourself . ’ |
| 22 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 23 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 24 | Clearly it would be difficult to justify a dual system of justice if it led to certain types of people being more easily convicted , for the whole concept of the rule of law was to tip the balance of power away from the accusing state to the accused individual because it was rightly felt a too one-sided contest without such protection . |
| 25 | For example , if the notion of human rights is a meaningful one ( itself in hot dispute ) , and if it extends to all humans , including the severely and terminally brain-damaged , then how could we logically fail to extend the notion to at least some animals ? |