Example sentences of "if [indef pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone could crawl under the |
| 2 | It seems very likely , indeed , that an extension of democratic and decentralized planning would lead to an even larger role for the social sciences in the formation of public policies , if one may judge from the expansion and the greater utilization of them which has already occurred in the short period during which the present welfare states have developed . |
| 3 | This procedure is entirely straightforward if one can assume in the keyboarder competence in the handling of the English alphabet , apart from one very important snag : homonyms . |
| 4 | If this structure gives any clues as to what kinds of words the missing ones are — if one can deduce from the structure that one missing word is a verb of action , another is an animate noun , and so on — the patient can insert very general content words by using such deductions ( words like did , person , thing ) . |
| 5 | The foundations were now securely laid for a long period of prosperity rising to a peak in the early fourth century , if one can judge from the mansion-type houses in the towns and countryside . |
| 6 | The following had been written : ‘ I entrust to my sons that if one should die before the other leaving no children he should make over his share to his surviving brother ; but if both die childless I wish the whole estate to pass to my granddaughter Claudia . ’ |
| 7 | Even if anyone could escape from the fuselage — which I think would be impossible in the first place — they 'd die soon after surfacing . |