Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after years of marriage an ex-wife will get no benefit from this if her former husband dies . |
| 2 | The range of colours available is large , and a list of mail-order suppliers is given on page 118 if your local grocer or store does not stock them . |
| 3 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 4 | I should be delighted if my hon. Friend 's constituents would care to drop me a note with information on their individual salaries . |
| 5 | Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine . |
| 6 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 7 | I would be grateful if your last issues are full of Private Eye and Ian Hislop bashing — the smug munchkin . |
| 8 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |
| 9 | Alright , not only do we have competing products on the farm , but we have joint products on the farm , in that if you rear sheep , sheep are not only used for the meat that they produce , but also the wheat the er , the wool that 's on , that 's on their backs . |
| 10 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 11 | As a result , artists feel that if they have parted company with their manager after three years it is unfair if their previous manager continues to take commission on album sales for another seven years . |
| 12 | These give only amendments and repeals since 1947 ( the year when Current Law began ) , which is satisfactory if your main statute was passed after 1947 , but otherwise not . |
| 13 | It will be valuable if our definitive document could be in place by the time FRS 3 comes into force on 22 June 1993 . |
| 14 | The captive chimpanzee would have no difficulty with mating if its mating behaviour — like that of a great many mammals — were simply triggered by the sense of smell and by hormonal or pheromonal stimulation . |
| 15 | ‘ And so everyone was happy , ’ said Julia , smiling again and not giving voice to her suspicion that perhaps the young homesick Italian might have been happier if her besotted husband had managed to forget his dislike of foreigners and their countries . |
| 16 | The result is that Mr Clinton is unlikely to unveil his plan until the third week of June , and it could be later if his economic package encounters more problems . |
| 17 | But I 'm sure if we all pool our resources we might all be able to get exactly what we want . ’ |
| 18 | Folly was n't sure if her growing feeling of euphoria was due to Luke 's excitement about the Rose Bowl 's possibilities — or the commitment to the future of their relationship that his willingness to help her implied . |
| 19 | The Director encouraged individuals to respond to the Scottish Office — to ensure these efforts are guided , it would be useful if your Divisional response on strategic planning was circulated within our Division as a standard framework . |
| 20 | So a private sector agent will only provide a public good if his private benefits exceed the costs of producing the good . |
| 21 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |
| 22 | After all , how can you make another person happy if your prime concern is your rating from one to ten ? |
| 23 | Perhaps the suffocating conventions of the Shermans ' Queen Anne plantation house would not have been forced on an unknowing seventeen-year-old if her ailing mother had not been so shamed by their straitened conditions in a rented house on the borders of the Creole quarter of New Orleans . |
| 24 | BARNET escaped expulsion from the Football League yesterday but the reprieve may prove only temporary if their financial difficulties continue . |
| 25 | One if its last acts had been to settle debts amounting to £182,500,000 ( US$297,657,500 as at April 2 , 1990 ) in an out-of-court settlement with 36 creditors on March 30 . |
| 26 | They believe that a degree of privacy and understanding is essential if Their Royal Highnesses are to provide a happy and secure upbringing for their children , while continuing to give a wholehearted commitment to their public duties . |
| 27 | The new operational structure is extremely important for the on-going success of your company and the full co-operation of all personnel is essential if its early implementation is to be achieved . |
| 28 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 29 | It does not face up to the punishment question because it implicitly suggests that they are not culpable if their criminal aetiology can be ‘ understood ’ . |
| 30 | Such people would be even more distressed if their loved ones were killed . |