Example sentences of "for if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 2 | What the bloody hell did you go an' marry me for if you wanted to go to London ? |
| 3 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 4 | Correctly balanced shoulder development should be aimed for if you are to avoid spoiling the whole physique . |
| 5 | What are we in the job for if not for challenges like this ? |
| 6 | Maybe without fully recognising it , the government has , in fact , started talking to the ANC — for if there is one thing Mr Mandela has made clear throughout his long incarceration , it is his unwavering allegiance to the movement , whose foremost leader he remains . |
| 7 | His friends on the Union committee thought that what happened was best accounted for if he saw a vision of his dead mother in the gallery watching him speak . |
| 8 | No official of the Government or Party can go to an ujamaa village and tell the members what they must grow … for if these things happen — that is , if an outsider gives such instructions and enforces them — then it will no longer be an ujamaa village ! |
| 9 | This is a result that is much easier to account for if we suggest that a body clock is responsible for the alternation between sleep and activity . |
| 10 | The rest of the battalion is ordered to eat before parades — for if a man faints and he has missed breakfast , he can be charged with rendering himself unfit for duty . |
| 11 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 12 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 13 | PC Dickens would probably find something to arrest him for if he was n't nice about all this rubbish . |
| 14 | The fact that this at least made it into D & AD 's showcase book of work indicates the kind of thing direct marketeers should aim for if they want to improve their awards performance . |
| 15 | However , the Conservative Government , at the time of writing , are trying in the most unsubtle ways to destroy the rail network in Scotland , a crime that generations to come will curse them for if they succeed . |
| 16 | Before I discuss the technique of punt fishing , however , let me describe what kind of punt is ideal , and then you will know what to look for if you are about to buy one , or know what to plan if you are a good D.I.Y . |
| 17 | It is totally pointless to use extra-heavy rods at short range which can not do the job they were designed for if they are not used with lines of the appropriate length . |
| 18 | Standing still was important for if the conker was swaying about , the striker had a free go . |
| 19 | It all seemed to me one more way of getting people to stop thinking for themselves — a highly convenient and complacent way of life — for if you took the advice offered and made a mess of things , then it could always be someone else 's fault . |
| 20 | So he finds puzzling ‘ The existence of trends which continue for millions of years — for if evolution is a random process one would expect purely random changes of direction ’ . |
| 21 | Samuel Smith took the view that the spiritual needs of deaf people could only be properly provided for if they had their own church and an ordained minister . |
| 22 | The CD3 , which is Ariston 's third CD player in roughly the same number of years ( they all remain available by the way ) heralds no revolution in technology or features , but may be just what you are looking for if the brief is for a medium-price player which will offer musical excellence without frills or complication . |
| 23 | It is important that a long-net should be set completely clear of sticks and brambles for if these become entangled within the net it can not function properly . |
| 24 | As well as the numbers to phone if you wanted an abortion or if you did n't , there were numbers for if you felt like committing suicide , were going bald , wanted a job , had been arrested or wanted today 's recipe . |
| 25 | You can have a lot of fun shooting city lights , but there are one or two points to watch out for if you are going to come away with some really effective shots . |
| 26 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 27 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 28 | We have included ‘ answers ’ to the three introductory cases in order to give you an idea of what we would be looking for if we were marking your responses . |
| 29 | It is necessary to bring the wood to a moisture content which is nearly at equilibrium with the environment in which the timber is going to be used for if this is not done one must expect warping and shrinkage . |
| 30 | Remember this when you write an argument : that they depend , to a large extent , on the antagonists not hearing one another — for if they heard and understood one another , then a measure of sympathy would be extended and the continuance of the row would be threatened . |