Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if we offered to replace Crevecoeur for her … |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps if we tried to get things straight in our minds now , it might hurry the enquiry along , ’ Peggy suggested , casually . |
| 3 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 4 | Perhaps if you wish to add questions , it might be helpful if you could circulate them amongst the 4 of us before the 26th . |
| 5 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 6 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 7 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 8 | But because of the bureaucratic necessity to generalize and disregard distinctions too fine for large-scale enforcement and administration , some people are able to do better if they refuse to acknowledge the authority of this law . |
| 9 | Definitely better if you want to increase the power capacity . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd like it better if I tried to make people happy , would n't you ? |
| 11 | I recall the gist of it implied that they could n't sit there sunbathing too long if they wanted to get through all seven tops . |
| 12 | There might be a thousand methods for closing the deal , but in the end the customers will buy only if they want to buy . |
| 13 | Women at risk of becoming pregnant were accepted only if they undertook to use effective contraceptive measures . |
| 14 | This effect can be eliminated , but only if we cease to use our 50Hz or 60Hz frequencies and rely on DC exclusively or , alternatively , double the operating frequency to 100Hz or 120Hz . |
| 15 | And so his words , ‘ Bless those who persecute you ; bless and do not curse ’ sound like a counsel of perfection only if we fail to realise the process of transformation which is needed to enable us realistically to respond in this way to aggression from others . |
| 16 | ‘ Only if you 'ad to go to work , ’ said Dolly . |
| 17 | The Chief Constable replies , ‘ Only if you agree to pay . ’ |
| 18 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 19 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 20 | Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ? |
| 21 | Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island . |
| 22 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Only if you promise to have lunch with me tomorrow ! ’ he demanded outrageously . |
| 24 | In doing so it attempts to limit the effects of the imbalance to the most superficial levels — in other words , the physical level — and only if it fails to do so will emotional imbalances , or if the stresses go deeper , mental imbalances , be manifest . |
| 25 | A Mandela book might attract many of these readers , but only if he wants to write it . |
| 26 | An expert misconducts himself only if he fails to decide the issue in the way he has agreed with the parties to do : see 13.13 . |
| 27 | Indeed the Law Commission Working Paper No 77 , Implied Terms in Contracts for the Supply of Goods ( 1977 ) , recognised three possible approaches : firstly , the bailor is strictly liable ( Jones v Page ( 1867 ) 15 LT 619 per Kelly CB at p621 ) ; secondly , the goods must be as fit as care and skill can make them ( Hyman v Nye ( 1881 ) 6 QBD 685 per Lindley J at p682 ) ; thirdly , the bailor is liable only if he fails to take reasonable care to ensure that the goods are fit which , as the via media of the two other approaches , was eventually adopted in s9 of SGSA 1982 . |
| 28 | On the riverside , where the pathway could not be closed , a uniformed policeman paced imperturbably , and occasionally moved people along if they tended to congregate and linger too long . |
| 29 | We might begin by asking ourselves just what is a sexual problem : we may find the term a difficult one to define , and even more so if we attempt to assess the magnitude of the problem in any given situation or individual . |
| 30 | Quite simply , nothing unclean shall enter heaven or dwell in the presence of God so if we wish to spend eternity with Christ we need to be thoroughly and permanently cleansed from our sins , totally purged and in fact clothed with the righteousness of God . |