Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pers pn] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Steve says the small scale dealers buy 50 tablets from bigger dealers , and sell them on weekends before clubs open , or once they 're inside .
2 If we find that when we have stopped it , either things are just as bad ( which is improbable ) or that they are still fairly bad , then indeed it will be easier , scientifically easier , to detect any other causes which may be at work . ’
3 Their family fears that they may have been tortured to death or extrajudicially executed , or that they are still being held in incommunicado detention .
4 However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational .
5 The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time .
6 While tying is not necessarily incompatible with the fundamental economic objectives of aid , it reduces its potential benefit to the extent that goods are over-priced , or that they are less appropriate — and sometimes much less appropriate — for the job .
7 Feminist psychology also often accepts psychological clichés about black women : for instance , that in low socioeconomic groups they are more powerful than black men or white women ; or that they are sexually delinquent ( e.g. Rainwater 1972 ) .
8 The team says this is not so because administrators dislike them , or that they are hardly aware of them .
9 In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ?
10 Where if you 're fairly new , you do n't know them people , you might be thinking you have to have a timed appointment to go in with , where you 'll save a lot of time by just building up , and working on your existing like that .
11 Heat the oil in a large casserole dish , add the meatballs and cook for 5–6 mins , or until they are evenly browned , turning them over frequently .
12 Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony .
13 In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 .
14 Is credit rationing easier to implement if banks operate as a cartel or if they are highly competitive ?
15 Or if they are there , they 're existing voluntary organisations which may be already very loaded , who 've got a lot of work to do , to get into a negotiating framework and so on , so the first the thing I 'd say in answer to you is that , N C V O and other must put a tremendous pressure on government and local authorities to fund the community development aspect of the pluralistic society which er , the current government seems to want .
16 For example , if the eigenvalues are numerically small , a unit could dominate the spectral matrix ; or if they are very large , a unit could be of the order of the errors in the computation .
17 Or if they 're well grown , use a rake to collect them together for composting .
18 Or if I am now , I wo n't be later .
19 Or if I 'm really
20 If you want to know more , write to South East Arts , Crescent Road , Tunbridge Wells , or if you are particularly interested in crafts , either as professional craftsman , or as a member of the general public , contact me , Frances Smith , at Tunbridge Wells four one double six .
21 This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex .
22 If your library does not participate in the work of the SUC , or if you are currently considering automation and would like advice on automated input , tape compatibility , etc. , please contact Eileen Watson , the Editor of the SUC at Lending Services , from whom copies of the full results of the questionnaire survey can also be obtained .
23 They do not apply if your employment is terminated during the term or if you are constructively dismissed .
24 If you are going to spend a lot of money advertising nationally , or if you are very inexperienced , you might like to enlist the help of an advertising agency .
25 And then I do n't particularly want you to start yet but if you do get time or if you 're just interested and you do n't want to stop and you want to keep going try it with sixty .
26 So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team .
27 Or if you 're frightened or if you 're very anxious , if you 're gon na do something important and you 've not done it before and you get a bit anxious , you can use the ylang-ylang which is the Oil of Tranquillity .
28 Or if you 're really hard-faced you can try the ‘ We 're really serious artists ’ routine .
29 ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control .
30 ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control .
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