Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 2 | Dr Greene would only permit Faye to be at home if she kept to a stricter schedule of bed-rest . |
| 3 | In chronic cases if you change to a complementary remedy you generally start from 0/1 again and work up . |
| 4 | Rumour had it that if you went to a Norman Mailer party , you 'd see people smoking marijuana , covertly passing around a joint behind the bushes at the bottom of the garden . |
| 5 | ‘ If you went to a residential symposium with murder in mind , you 'd expect to come across some suitable weapon , whether it was a heavy saucepan or a carving knife . |
| 6 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 7 | Erm the advantage that schools has er have sorry , over the other products , is that if you went to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 8 | If you go to a thousand she 'll only have to come and do it now cos well I 've won ai n't I ? |
| 9 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |
| 10 | Remember , if you go to a late-night party , you 'll need to make up those lost hours of sleep — probably at week-ends . |
| 11 | However , the other aspect is that if you go to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 12 | Oh yeah yeah I would imagine so but I w er maybe it 's maybe you become a member if you go to a few of their and they get to know your faces or something and then you apply but I do n't really know . |
| 13 | If you travel to a tropical country , write to that country 's tourist office to tell them that you are concerned about the preservation of their forests . |
| 14 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |
| 15 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 16 | If you move to a new address , you should inform the council in the area you have left and in the area you have moved to , of your change in address . |
| 17 | And if you move to a new house , remember that other people may still have keys to the premises — fit new locks , and use them ! |
| 18 | The new flexi-age retirement provision is unlikely to help you if you move to a new job , since it only applies to employees of 20 years ' standing . |
| 19 | If we subscribe to a truth-conditional semantics , we shall therefore be forced to find a place for such meanings in pragmatic theory . |
| 20 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 21 | This procedure may break down if we get to a single pair of edges , but we will see that this can happen only if a pair of corners has also to be exchanged . |
| 22 | If we advance to a single currency and monetary and political union , will we , as Members of Parliament directly answerable to the electorate , have responsibility without authority ? |
| 23 | For example , with a file that is only 50 per cent packed , we must expect 21.31 per cent of the records not to be stored in their home record positions if we randomize to a specific address . |
| 24 | From the table and figure , it is clear that far fewer records will be displaced if we randomize to a multi-record bucket rather than to an individual record position . |
| 25 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 26 | In some areas , though , changes are welcome , especially if they lead to a better and more reliable product . |
| 27 | Similarly , stickers or any other obstruction son the windscreen ( except mirrors , sun visors , tax discs and smaller discs ) will cause failure if they intrude to a similar extent . |
| 28 | The external version of the theory holds that the ‘ market value ’ of top managers ( which takes account of the salary they could command if they moved to a different employer ) will increase where they are associated with a successful company and therefore that directors will do all they can to boost profitability . |
| 29 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 30 | If it came to a straight choice between a dolphin and Henry ( and in Henry 's view things had already got that serious ) he would go for Henry every time . |