Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb base] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 2 | ‘ If I play at the Royal Albert Hall , there may be 3,000 people there , but it 's still one-to-one because that 's the way I operate . |
| 3 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 4 | If you retire at the normal minimum retirement age , which for most civil servants is 60 , you will get an annual pension and a lump sum . |
| 5 | If you tack at the right time , when the wind slightly changes in direction , large amounts of ground can be made over those who are oblivious to the shift . |
| 6 | But we do n't find , if you like at the top end of the corporate finance market , that they are yet as significant a competitor as are er rivals among the leading firms . |
| 7 | If you 're in any doubt about it , do n't — you 'll do less harm if you leave it than if you prune at the wrong time . |
| 8 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 9 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 10 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 11 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 12 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 13 | If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all . |
| 14 | If you look at the net debt in greater detail it is still the difference between erm substantial gross debt and substantial amounts of cash , each of which have gone up somewhat during the year . |
| 15 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 16 | Erm as we see it , there are en two possible courses on the new settlement that in fact you end up if you look at the right hand side of that sheet of paper , with four possible answers . |
| 17 | If you look at the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire , and I fully admit that we still have to see the erm the colour of regional guidance . |
| 18 | If you look at the revised mid-year estimate , the figure there if we 're keeping things in balance between county and and Leeds , is six thousand two hundred and fifty , net out migration . |
| 19 | If you look at the general secretary report under the regional sections there is an invisible service you 'll be unable to find the health and safety side . |
| 20 | In fact if you look at the average price of a package holiday since nineteen seventy eight , the increase in prices has been absolutely marginal . |
| 21 | However in this aircraft we have specified a very high degree of re reliability and if you look at the total number of occurrences for each piece of equipment that are going to require maintenance , it 's so low that it does n't justify the provision of maintenance facilities on every base . |
| 22 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |
| 23 | assessments are available , and Mrs will confirm as the same as the cycling issue for example the value and assessments will be made available , these are vast documents of many pages , if you look at the actual , the final page you 'll see there in fact that the |
| 24 | If you look at the blue line in the middle of the slide then look to your right , each of those erm icons represents a source or service provider a server on the network . |
| 25 | The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) . |
| 26 | It 's not really a loss if you look at the overall company situation . ’ |
| 27 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 28 | it 's way down the I mean all these people go , Oh it 's people are n't using the english language properly but if you look at the english |
| 29 | and if you look at the Scottish results |
| 30 | Well once again if you look at the er er if you look at the full page which costs nine hundred pound on a on a golf club score card and you look at the full page in the A five booklet |