Example sentences of "[adv] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 2 | Oh well that 's good enough then , I thought perhaps if the taxpayer had to pay , I would n't be very pleased |
| 3 | Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book . |
| 4 | Perhaps if the word ‘ avouch ’ were in common use , so that the reproach would be ‘ But you avouched ’ it would be more obvious to us that saying ‘ I know ’ is doing something . |
| 5 | Perhaps if the term is replaced by ‘ compensatory ’ or ‘ therapeutic ’ such reading will be considered more sympathetically . |
| 6 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 7 | Basically if the band stays together then we 'll just still know the same people because |
| 8 | In the optimality theory , this is determined by the reservation price rule sell all if the price is above the reservation price , sell nothing otherwise . |
| 9 | Information to back up any claims made about the product ( eg if a label says ‘ New for slimmers ’ it must explain why by listing how many calories it contains ) |
| 10 | ‘ It may better if the child can get to know both parents where possible , even though many unmarried mums are happier on their own . ’ |
| 11 | Survival was significantly better for patients without regional lymph node metastases ( stage 0 , I , IIA ( n=61 ) : 5 year survival 30% ) and even better if the tumour was restricted to the submucosa ( stage 0 , I ( n=12 ) : 5 year survival 63% ) . |
| 12 | … traditional budgeting also has the defects of its virtues … comparing this year with last year may not mean much if the past was a mistake and the future is likely to be a bigger one . |
| 13 | While he may fell constrained electorally and by the highly effective brewers ' lobby to keep the increase on drink to the rate of inflation , nobody will worry too much if the duty of cigarettes is increased , as widely predicted , by double the inflation rate . |
| 14 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 15 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 16 | The same critics pointed to the obsolete Victorian rationale of the Commission — which was established to plant trees for wooden ships and pit-props in a war in which timber would be a strategic material — and wondered aloud if the organisation as well as its activities should not be reformed or abolished . |
| 17 | As you shoot the scene , you have to tread a tight-rope , avoiding the fault of holding a shot too long if the action seems to have dried up , while simultaneously avoiding the opposite fault of cutting shots too short just before something begins to happen . |
| 18 | In a couple of years-sooner if a child is born — I 'll be forgiven and Anna will be taken into the family . |
| 19 | So obviously if a cook goes , a cook has to be replaced , if a care assistant goes , a care assistant has to be replaced , as long as the population is there . |
| 20 | Obviously if the whole of the surplus-value is consumed unproductively it makes little difference how it is consumed , either as necessaries or as luxuries . |
| 21 | he stops talking to , stops to talk to her I said and obviously if the meat is n't coming out the box , the meat is n't coming out of the box ! |
| 22 | Oh well er , quality is more important than quantity , but obviously if the quantity is very tiny , i it is there 's not much room for quality . |
| 23 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 24 | Obviously if the club wants to sell them its a different matter . |
| 25 | Obviously if the group is small , its chances of success may be badly damaged by one individual not joining . |
| 26 | Furthermore if the idea of a first and second wave is to be sustained , then — in Clarke 's , Hall 's and others ' formulations — it must be shown that one wave in some senses follows the other . |
| 27 | Furthermore if the search resolves the ambiguity it will in future save all the expense that would otherwise be incurred in fighting the rival interpretations through the courts . |
| 28 | The labels , however , have fallen off or become illegible , and only if a character with Chemistry or Prepare Poisons makes a thorough ( 1 dose ) analysis coupled with a successful Int test will he know what they are . |
| 29 | But the benefit is realised only if a spending tax replaces other existing taxes and the tax burden as a whole is either unchanged or reduced . |
| 30 | Only if a building is listed can this significant premium on construction costs be avoided , although the majority of disused churches which are offered for conversion are of ‘ listed ’ status . |