Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb base] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 2 | They 've not in the past shown themselves to be very honest erm nor very keen on going into their own archives , and I think it 's , actually takes people like me , who live on the border-lines if you like of the two cultures , to go in and discover erm sometimes embarrassing documents , embarrassing information , to confront them with it , in their own language , so that they have to take stock . |
| 3 | And I think the the local touch if you like of the principal beat officer , er shows itself on occasions like that . |
| 4 | What of course you 're saying here , it comes out here in 's letter , er , the structure , because er you said earlier that you realize now that we 're looking , we 're filling in the , in the gaps if you like of the local organizations . |
| 5 | ‘ If you think of the only alternative . ’ |
| 6 | If you 're not quite sure where Middle Pavement is if you think of the rear exit of the Broadmarsh Centre , the escalator exit , the escalator brings you out onto a road called Middle Pavement which slopes quite steeply downhill . |
| 7 | If you think of the Elizabethan era , even the men wore hose did n't they ? |
| 8 | They 're talking about up the Dales if you , if you , if you think of the marvellous place that goes around he 's got |
| 9 | Hardly National Anthems , because if you think of the Red Flag , which is the Communist Anthem , it 's not National , because it spreads throughout the whole of the world , for those people who are erm , red incline , Communist incline , and if you think of Europe , whatever you think of Europe , there is a European Anthem . |
| 10 | The mountain now stands at 1.2m tonnes — a mind-boggling figure , best be put in context if you think of the 450-mile-long queue of 40,000 lorries which would be needed to carry it away . |
| 11 | If we speak of the stylistic values of a non-literary text , we are interested in the way in which linguistic choices are adapted to communicative function — to such functions as newspaper reporting , advertising , scientific exposition . |
| 12 | If we think of the great 19th-century novels , published at a time when the novel as a form was still new , but confident , secure in its legitimacy as a writing form , we know that that kind of novel could not be written today . |
| 13 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |