Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 2 | If I had to design an attractive luxury car that gave the optimum compromise between performance , space , noise level and fuel economy , it would quite probably resemble the 605 SVi . |
| 3 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 4 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 5 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 6 | ‘ If I have to kill a few more people , so be it , ’ said Robert . |
| 7 | If she had to bribe the wretched receptionist she would . |
| 8 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 9 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 10 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 11 | If you had to give a phoney address , could n't you at least have picked something that did n't have a remote basis in reality ? |
| 12 | Keep it simple , avoid jargon and if you have to give a long explanation , try to break it up . |
| 13 | If you have to spend the major part of the day in an office , house or factory , can you open the windows ? |
| 14 | If you have to do a major shop without having had a meal , eat one of your snacks first . |
| 15 | If you have to carry a heavy load , divide the weight between two bags . |
| 16 | You will also need planning permission if you have to create a new access to your property from a classified road , and if you do , you 'll need the consent of the local highways authority to cross a footpath or verge to reach it . |
| 17 | But arrivals follow departures and the new appears very promising — even if you have to wait a little time for it . |
| 18 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't get home if you have to go the that play , give me ring . |
| 19 | What 's more , if you have to buy the same machine for more money elsewhere , you can also claim the difference in price from the original supplier . |
| 20 | If you have to make a close-run decision then ask yourself which factor is the most important one and which candidate made the best showing on that particular subject . |
| 21 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 22 | If you have to have a special diet for health reasons , and find you can not afford the price , make sure you are claiming the supplementary benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 23 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 24 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 25 | Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ . |
| 26 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 27 | If we have to make a major change , you will be offered compensation or a credit towards the cost of an alternative Summer 1990 holiday you choose from this brochure ( where available ) as follows . |
| 28 | But if we have to make an explicit assumption that living creatures , or men , do actually exist in order to make an inferential paraphrase work , then a reductivist analysis fails to achieve its purpose and we are back exactly where we began . |
| 29 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 30 | Mr Burns said newsagents — at present able to trade freely on Sundays — would face a costly and bureaucratic nightmare if they had to register every five years . |