Example sentences of "[coord] if it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 2 | The only thing if it 's a bargain or if it looks nice or you need something new . |
| 3 | He liked to please the family and if it wished ill to the starveling cat then so did he . |
| 4 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 5 | But I 'm very young , and if it goes wrong , I can always do something else . ’ |
| 6 | And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event . |
| 7 | This potential demand is estimated to be of the order of 600,000 , and if it becomes clear that the housing market has bottomed out and house prices are rising once more , it could provide significant support to the housing market . |
| 8 | It 's got Gene Simmons written on it , it 's got a cool name , and if it feels good when you play it , that 's valid enough . |
| 9 | You could use this technique at the start and at the end of every massage if you wish and if it feels right for you . |
| 10 | Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook . |
| 11 | The electric you say oh the electricity can go round there and if it gets light , |
| 12 | It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong . |
| 13 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 14 | So of course we got emotional , and if it looks real then that is great , that is the way it should be . |
| 15 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 16 | When this happened we had to wait until it was repaired , and if it proved impossible we were entitled to see the next film the following Sunday , for nothing . |
| 17 | But if it came unopened , unsealed , he would return the reply unsealed . |
| 18 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 19 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |
| 20 | Provided all the shares are owned by a government agency or by a financial institution , a joint-stock company may become a one-man company , but if it becomes insolvent the sole shareholder is liable for all the company 's indebtedness . |
| 21 | ‘ I accept the recommendation that the licences should not be revoked , but if it becomes public knowledge that the tools are to be used to make munitions , deliveries would have to stop at once . |
| 22 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 23 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 24 | It is a matter for further investigation , but if it looks wrong , it is wrong until proved otherwise . |
| 25 | But if it looks vindictive — more a battle for Saddam 's head than for the liberation of Kuwait — public opinion in the West could soon turn . |
| 26 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |