Example sentences of "[conj] if [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possibility is for the purchaser to provide that part of the purchase price will be reduced and repaid to the purchaser if certain material consents are not received or if only a proportion of material consents are received . |
| 2 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 3 | But I would say that if obviously a head gasket goes on a vehicle and somebody knowing that fact continues to drive the vehicle , yes — and damages their engine — yes I must say we would reject liability . |
| 4 | The purchaser hopes that if ever a court considers any one level of protection to be unreasonable , it may sever this from the agreement and leave the other covenants untouched or impose a more reasonable amended form . |
| 5 | Two readers , Meryl Emerson of Alresford and Mrs. D. Dibble of Farnborough , are both agreed that if ever a shopkeeper deserved our Gold Star , it is Lena Kerry of Woolwork in Grosvenor Road , Aldershot , Hampshire . |
| 6 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 7 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 8 | Baldwin , with a glowering Churchill beside him and uncertain followers behind him , took the opportunity to pay a notable tribute to the Viceroy and to end it on a curious note , half petulant , half menacing : ‘ I will only add that if ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood , then I have finished with my party . ’ |
| 9 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 10 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 11 | In many absolutist states the myth that if only the Tsar or the Führer knew about the people 's grievances he would act to resolve them was carefully fostered by state propaganda and even more so in Romania by the Securitate 's rumour machine . |
| 12 | This is a serious omission , redolent of the old habits of thought that if only the public will trust Whitehall , all will be well . |
| 13 | ‘ They are doing this by the usual process of blaming the Unionists for it all and insinuating that if only the Unionists would talk to the SDLP and through them to Dublin , then everything would calm down and peace and good would reign supreme . ’ |
| 14 | People who have been held awkwardly may in their turn be stiff , ashamed of nudity or partial nudity , or carry a fantasy that if only the scene were properly set , rosy lights dimly aglow , all would come right . |
| 15 | But he remained convinced that if only the Elector could hear him he would change his mind : |
| 16 | and that if only the balancing act was involved the registrar 's order should stand . |
| 17 | This means that , even if a given address is known , it will be reached no more quickly than if only the track on which the record is stored is known . |
| 18 | When the branch containing the reactances is nonreactive and if also the bridge is balanced . |
| 19 | Well , there were precedents for such things ; and if ever a monarch might not rest peacefully in the Fields of Aarru , that man was Akhenaten . |
| 20 | And if ever a man sleeps well after a day 's work done well that man is , and I pray God give him rest , Donald Templeton ! ’ |
| 21 | And if ever a woman could make a rabbit pie , it 's our Maggie . |
| 22 | er , and if ever an incident happens in our part of Leicester , and there 's a police statement about it , it 's usually quoting him . |
| 23 | It might be possible , however , to construct new variants on the Gettier theme which do not rely on inference or on an inference of this sort , as we shall see in the next section , and if so no complaints about PC j or other principles will be very effective . |
| 24 | But this merely shifts the problem where the conflict occurs and calls for a very careful examination of whether , and if so the way in which , the individual is exercising that right . |
| 25 | Can you please let me know if you would be willing to take this booking on a regular basis , commencing with Saturday 20th November 1993 and if so the charge that you would make to us . |
| 26 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 27 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 28 | Usually , it is assumed that Clovis must be the monarch in question , but if so the failure to name him is peculiar : his reputation might have been expected to add lustre to the code . |
| 29 | Thus a car which is so seriously damaged that its chassis is distorted could no longer be accurately described as new , even after being repaired , whereas if only the engine were damaged the car could be restored to newness by a new engine being installed . |