Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And it 's so annoying because I 'm bothered if I know words hum the tune . |
2 | Something good can come out of something that went wrong if we get encouragement from the rest of society . |
3 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
4 | First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart . |
5 | But the results are clear if you compare performance in Germany and Japan with that in the UK . ’ |
6 | I 'll be embarrassed if I told Stuart to come ! |
7 | It might be different if she had children of her own — but she 's never even had a boyfriend I 've liked . ’ |
8 | It 's just , to me , it just makes me feel so much different if I have time to just potter about you know ? |
9 | The middle-aged tended to become power-happy if they had geriatrics in the family . |
10 | Your mother felt it might make you insecure if you knew Elaine had just gone and left you like that . ’ |
11 | While most dealers were relieved if they covered costs a few , such as Leslie Waddington from London , did a comfortable amount of business . |
12 | ‘ People might be a bit more polite if everybody carried guns . ’ |
13 | Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television . |
14 | You could even send personalized faxes by doing a mailmerge — this is quite possible if you use Windows and programs like Word for Windows , Packrat , a PIM and WinFax Pro , which can share a common name and address book . |
15 | MS Do they get very upset if you talk Patois ? |
16 | In a gesture worthy of King Canute they went further : ‘ It may become necessary to consider whether the community as a whole would not be happier and more stable if it abolished divorce altogether , ’ they wrote . |
17 | Perhaps , in this fictional world ( it must be fictional if it has dragons in it ) the knight is seeking a magic pineapple , hoarded in a dragon 's cave . |
18 | And he 'll be do a very good show rather a shy man but he will And that will be that will be rather technical if I know Adrian , but if you if you like he 's that 's the time to come . |
19 | cos I 'm I know if I had it I 'd just feel really awful if I had BO |
20 | The correlation between ‘ class ’ and party support is even more striking if one considers subdivisions within the broad classes , with the self-confessed ‘ upper classes ’ showing 100 per cent Tory allegiance and the ‘ lower working class ’ showing 77 per cent Labour partisanship . |
21 | Abstracting the references to intention from the section , it can be reconstructed to read that a person is guilty if he uses language or conduct towards another person that is threatening , abusive or insulting in circumstances : |
22 | A person is therefore guilty if he obtains ownership alone without possession or control . |
23 | Note that a person is guilty under s.15 if he obtains ownership but does not obtain possession or control ; and if the accused is in possession or control , he is guilty if he obtains ownership by deception . |
24 | The accused is guilty if he obtains property for someone else . |
25 | If the transaction is void for fraud , the accused does not obtain ownership ( i.e. property ) but is guilty if he acquires possession or control . |
26 | Moreover , there is fraud on the shopkeeper : the accused has concealed his dishonesty. ) ( d ) The accused was not guilty if he switched labels " with some perverted sense of humour " . |
27 | On the one hand , they may think it unfair if we dismiss Chrissie and retain Fred . |
28 | This result is inevitable if we classify topics using only one dimension , such as function . |
29 | The reasons for this will become obvious if we compare meanings with things other than the species of thought . |
30 | This is obvious if we consider societies which have systems of partible inheritance , where resources are divided equally between the surviving children on the parents ' death . |