Example sentences of "[subord] if [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The business class as a whole does not make up more than 0.2% of the population , although if its outer fringes are included it could approach 1% . |
2 | I do n't know if minor is n't , if if you minor English , is n't it just major authors , |
3 | Because if your dry ends turn to split ends , the only cure is no ends . |
4 | Just for a moment he looked as shaken as if her innocent words had been a knife thrust . |
5 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
6 | Claudine suddenly seemed to notice the flustered looks that Jenna still had , although Alain was as cool as if his heated lovemaking had never happened . |
7 | For if their own equilibrium price rises by 10 per cent and the average of all other prices rises by 10 per cent too , then they will not increase output because they know that there has been no increase in the relative price of the good on their island . |
8 | For if our physical reality is largely linked to the mental and sensory mechanisms we possess , then what was the nature of physical reality before life is supposed to have spontaneously emerged — like mice out of soiled linen , as some Victorians thought — from the primaeval muds of ancient oceans ? |
9 | I considered this process in some detail in The Secret of the Creative Vacuum , for if our basic premises are incorrect , then all findings based upon such foundations will also be suspect . |
10 | The widower will receive many more invitations out to meals in other people 's homes in the early days too , and he will have the advantage of never having to feel trapped in the isolation of an empty house in the evenings ; for if his emotional condition after his wife 's death is reasonably steady and he feels the need of company , he can always stroll out to the local pub for a drink , where he can remain in complete control of the amount of conversation he wants , or can endure , and can head for home again just when he feels like it . |