Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] if [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There may also be a reluctance to move out of the South , in the fear that if house prices in the ‘ North ’ increase at a slower rate , it may be difficult to return to the ‘ South ’ at a later date ( refer also to Chapter 8 , page 107 ) . |
| 2 | Cypress says it can only speculate that Sun will become a customer for HyperSparc , though Cypress chief , TJ Rogers , has been sending messages via the press to the effect that if Sun does n't buy HyperSparc , then he 's going to turn around and do the Alpha RISC for DEC ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 3 | When it was suggested to Gandhi on one occasion by a Roman Catholic priest that if Hinduism became monotheistic Christianity and Hinduism could serve India in co-operation , Gandhi 's reply was that Hindus were not polytheistic . |
| 4 | I 'll just go and pop up to the other estate agent cos if dad comes in now he 'll have his dinner wo n't he ? |
| 5 | Business decisions on output , investment and employment will be more sensitive to the risk of bankruptcy than if capital markets functioned better . |
| 6 | People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave . |
| 7 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |
| 8 | We know with some confidence that if greenhouse gases continue to be emitted in their present quantities , we will experience unprecedented rates of sea-level rise . |
| 9 | Sexual fulfilment is at such a premium in modernity that if marriage can not provide it , it can always be found elsewhere . |
| 10 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 11 | Mature parasites are found in the duodenum and proximal jejunum and if present in large numbers may cause inflammation with oedema and erosion of the epithelium . |
| 12 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 13 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 14 | On most occasions he refers to them to underscore a particular fundamental truth and if evolution is true and creation is simply a myth then some great biblical truths are built on sinking sand and not on solid rock . |
| 15 | It needs investigation but if agreement was reached the campaign could be tried in the UK as a test with space donated by local UK media . ’ |
| 16 | Training may need to be a continuous activity , with periodic updating sessions and refresher courses , especially if the firm is involved in new product development or if technology is changing rapidly . |
| 17 | There is nothing new in the notion that if discrimination was replaced with a better understanding of the needs of older consumers , it would reap its own rewards . |
| 18 | We er teeter on the edge of er a crisis virtually at the end of every day and if action is , and strong action is not taken very very quickly , er we have no doubt whatsoever , that the already serious level of , of er incidents within the prison system will escalate totally out of control . |
| 19 | The attitude of staff is always conditioned by the lead from the top and if cleaning is not regarded as a serious requirement at this level this attitude is quickly communicated to all levels with inevitable results . |
| 20 | If the plan gets the go-ahead it will be submitted to the Department for Education and if approval is given the school could begin soon after that decision . |
| 21 | We may overcome our individual pride but if pride is in our nature , then it will colour all our thoughts and actions . |
| 22 | This is sometimes a reflection of the belief that if sample results show the discharge to be so much beyond the consent limits then the pollution must be having some effect on the stream . |
| 23 | It was Eliot 's belief that if Christianity disappeared our civilization would disappear with it , and in his letters to friends during this period he gave the impression that this process was already far advanced . |
| 24 | Hence his belief that if community care ca n't work in Newcastle ‘ it ca n't work anywhere . ’ |
| 25 | Part of my thesis rests upon the belief that if deixis operates in a different way in lyric poetry from the way it does in non-literary discourse , it does so in degree , not in kind . |
| 26 | Does it not provide further evidence for the argument that if money is available it should be spent not on tax cuts but on our health service ? |
| 27 | When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers . |
| 28 | I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country . |
| 29 | This low-level theory , if spelt out in more detail , amounts to the claim that if wheat is grown in the normal way , converted into bread in the normal way and eaten by humans in a normal way , then those humans will be nourished . |
| 30 | Finally , until recently , gynaecologists recognised only the classic blue-black lesion as being endometriosis and if diagnosis was restricted to this appearance and to severe cases this would influence the effect of age on the risk of endometriosis reported in this study . |