Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 2 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 3 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 5 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 6 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 7 | I 'll name no names at this stage , but will do so fearlessly if the exhibition continues much longer . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 9 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 10 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 11 | However , they will be able to waive best execution , and indeed can do so even if they are discretionary customers ( which is a helpful relaxation and reflects the new spirit of liberalisation ) ; the best practice would be to have this waiver in writing . |
| 12 | She will do so only if Mr Major resigns . |
| 13 | The monetary committee 's report warns that any currency wishing to rejoin should do so only if there is mutual agreement on its parity . |
| 14 | In the light of the above , it is clear that two matrices having the same modal matrix do not necessarily permute ; they will do so only if their spectral matrices permute . |
| 15 | Section 22 empowers the Secretary of State to make an order dealing with the trade practice but he can do so only if the following requirements are fulfilled : |
| 16 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 17 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 18 | if you go in a freezer and it shrivels so then if you go in the fridge |
| 19 | And I think I 'm I speak for er you know so so if that 's success then yes you know then then it 's it 's got to you know I du n no ho |
| 20 | This would not necessarily conflict with the picture of word-meaning developed so far if a single superordinate sense could be found which covered all the variants . |
| 21 | Therefore the buyers were entitled to refuse to accept delivery because the sellers had committed a breach of condition ( i.e. of section 13 ) and the buyers were entitled to do so even if they would have suffered no loss by having the tins packed in cases of 24 instead of cases of 30 . |
| 22 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 23 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
| 24 | They are likely to do so only if the perceived benefits exceed the expected costs . |
| 25 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 26 | Thus oxygen and hydrogen do not combine at room temperatures , but do so explosively if the temperature is raised . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope that remark does n't imply that you would n't care so much if she was a nasty person . |
| 28 | Proper evaluation of the scheme requires more than the anecdotal accounts published so far if the true effects are to be monitored and the policy lessons learnt . |