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Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] if " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I 'd rather keep Horan and Little together but if Lloyd is a raging success against Neath , it might change our thinking . ’
2	I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess .
3	She 'd phone to see if he was all right and if he did n't answer the phone there 'd be trouble .
4	Residents often heard police ask Leanne if she was all right and if she had slept .
5	Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise .
6	Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along .
7	That really turned my stomach , even if , I mean I remember when I was carrying , when I was carrying the twins , and he used to go out huge things you know , and so much so that if he came home in the night , right , and I was already in bed asleep , I would be able to er , he would wake me in the bedroom cos I could smell smoke on him , but he did n't smoke , but where he 'd been the pub or a night club , I smelt
8	‘ Apparently so and if that 's proved then Len would n't have a hope in hell of bringing a case . ’
9	We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet .
10	But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
11	But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
12	She was tempted to tramp noisily down so that if Shildon had lingered he would be scared away , but then she would never know whether he had been there .
13	Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge .
14	Some smoke alarms can be linked together so that if one of them senses smoke , all of them will sound an alarm .
15	Move your arms as little as is necessary to achieve your purpose , and always move them together so that if the front hand is knocking down an incoming punch , the rear is executing a counter-punch .
16	The advantage of this form of key is that several different characters are compared together so that if one or more is missing , closeness of fit to the list can be used to gain an identification .
17	I do this , and reel my other rod in so that if the carp does give one another chance there will be no other line to get in the way of my landing it .
18	If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here .
19	Implications : the implications of the change and any alternatives or compromises which are possible , particularly if the affected programs will be used only once or if the change will require a considerable amount of development effort
20	You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial .
21	And if a cold-blooded animal is cold , then it metabolizes less rapidly than if it is warm — and so needs less energy , which means less food .
22	I have expressed phenomenalism so far as if all phenomenalists agree that observation statements report the nature of the reporter 's own sensory states .
23	Now if this is erm , a perhaps a non representative hundred in so far as if , if you can compare it with er the , the average in the West of Scotland , I know your speaking as , as an expert because you work , well , well tell me exactly what you do , I know your with the transport
24	Things are bad enough now but if there is no sign of progress towards a settlement , the people who are still giving friendly waves to UN troops are likely to start throwing stones as they do in Northern Ireland .
25	Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship .
26	Because of the nature of this sort of book you can afford to let the identity of the murderer become more obvious much earlier than if you were writing the classical blueprint .
27	Then at least we would avoid the congestion of bus traffic along there and if townbound traffic was limited to one stop on the museum side of Tubwell Row instead of two stops in 100 yards we might get somewhere in more senses than one .
28	And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe .
29	That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold .
30	If you obviously can not get down ahead or if you have doubts about it , then you have no alternative but to turn off , but check your speed first !