Example sentences of "[vb pp] if [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 2 | Phyllisia too , rejected Edith , her only friend , like her father would have done if he saw that she dressed like a ‘ Ragamuffin ’ . |
| 3 | ( Five year cases only ) If you are applying for a divorce because you have lived apart from your husband or wife for at least five years , your application would not be granted if it meant that your husband or wife would suffer grave financial hardship . |
| 4 | That the view of the judge 's role as declaratory is inadequate can be seen if one considers that the reason many cases come to court ( which are only a minority of the cases that are actually started ) is because there is genuine doubt as to what the law is . |
| 5 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 6 | This pattern of latencies can be explained if we assume that when a subordinate clause appears before its main clause syntactic information about the subordinate clause needs to be retained until the main clause has been heard . |
| 7 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 8 | ‘ WE 'LL GET STUFFED if we try and play the game by their rules , because they 're better at it than us . |
| 9 | The change procedure is bypassed if he considers that the change is beneficial and that no significant change in the functionality of the relevant sub-system , or impact on the development schedule , will be incurred . |
| 10 | You are invited to our Diamond House to see a little of the art of the diamond cutter , have your own ring valued and cleaned if you wish and maybe even purchase a ring or stone at very attractive discounts on UK prices . |
| 11 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 12 | My heart aches for him sometimes , but I 'm blessed if I know if he 's happy ; if he ever wants to marry , have a family , he keeps his thoughts , feelings very much to himself . |
| 13 | She is damned if she does and damned if she does n't . |
| 14 | A fairly similar situation is found if we ask if can precede and ; some RP speakers have in ‘ lunch ’ , ‘ French ’ , etc. , and never pronounce the sequence within a syllable , while other speakers always have in these contexts and never . |
| 15 | A landowner could have his monument protected if he wished but he might prefer to maltreat it or destroy it completely . |
| 16 | The audience was also asked if they thought that people should be involved in making their views known in schemes such as the Barrage , which have a large local effect . |
| 17 | They also get asked if they bite or kick . |
| 18 | When asked if he thought that Britain had any chance at all , he was more reassuring . |
| 19 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 20 | It can be overcome if you recognise that you are tired and getting complacent , but the onset is very gradual and often you do not recognise that anything is wrong . |
| 21 | Because all therapists realize that this can be the case , no one is likely to be offended if you feel that you would prefer to consult someone else . |
| 22 | For instance , much of the fear about scientists playing God and creating children can be dispelled if we consider that in the process of in vitro fertilization , the scientist allows the sperm to meet the egg in the laboratory instead of the Fallopian tube , which is blocked . |
| 23 | You 're very much mistaken if you think that there is . ’ |
| 24 | But he was mistaken if he thought that he could upset her . |
| 25 | But the reader is mistaken if he assumes that the humble eat below the salt in that great hall , or that the poor come to the buttery-hatch for alms . |
| 26 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 27 | Potential recruits might be reassured if they knew that in matters like these the governors would call on independent investigators or assessors from outside the school . |
| 28 | Candidates will be reassured if they find that the interviewer has taken the trouble to become familiar with the details on the form . |