Example sentences of "[subord] if [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 2 | The Lotus-style menu system of version 3.5 has been replaced by pull-down menus and dialogue boxes ( although if you prefer the old interface , there 's a menu option that lets you switch back ) . |
| 3 | The Cake Walk was supposed to be a most daring ride although if you held the rail whilst progressing around the U-shaped walk as it tossed like a rough sea , it was n't too bad . |
| 4 | ‘ Although if you read the American papers , you can see that they have been accusing our troops of committing ‘ atrocities ’ in Palestine . |
| 5 | Someone investing in only one or two shares , whether through a PEP or not , is exposed to a much greater risk than if they put the same sum into some form of collective investment . |
| 6 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 7 | Fig 103 By making the first of two tacks into tide it is easier to judge when to tack for the mark since you are much closer to it than if you take the other course . |
| 8 | If the manager can dress up the equipment as a way to increase efficiency , then he is far more likely to win his case than if he presents the hardware as a means of winning a political battle . |
| 9 | The King assured the Prime Minister that , remaining at his post , his position and reputation would be much more enhanced than if he surrendered the government of the country at such a crisis . |
| 10 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
| 11 | It 's a shame cos if they sold the video . |
| 12 | And erm I think that 's the way you know that er we were fed because there was none of us that was not suffered from anything apart from little childish illnesses cos if one got the measles we all got the measles you know , the whole lot of us . |
| 13 | Now if B is plus three , then going back to me formula here is going to be minus five , cos if I put the three in it there , I get minus five from there . |
| 14 | It 's gone right across its middle , but it do n't matter too much , cos if you hold the bits together you can still see it OK . |
| 15 | Cos if you got the train to Bethnal Green you could walk it from there to Whitechapel . |
| 16 | cos if you know the age you 're supposed to put the age down |
| 17 | Cos if you put the suite , the settee over there it 's gon na absorb all the heat into the settee . |
| 18 | Yes but it wou cos if you had the centre point up to the top of these two that 'd be hundred and twenty , hundred and twenty , hundred and twenty . |
| 19 | No you want dry hands cos if you touch the food with wet hands guess what happens ? |
| 20 | Cos if you see the , the theory was that if you left it there indefinitely , er obviously the money declines in real value , does n't it , because you 're getting no increase on it . |
| 21 | The screws made up promises , like if we took the barricade down they 'd leave us alone , they would n't punish us . |
| 22 | Yes , but if if we take the dog with us go up the heath and then I go to the hairdressers erm you do n't need a haircut anyway do you ? |
| 23 | And indeed if if we broaden the picture out a little bit , and we 've talked about the user interface and the relational database , clearly an accounting system ca n't stand alone . |
| 24 | No if if we notify the division after the end of it |
| 25 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 26 | So if if you ask the question erm or if you ask the question who something something the answer would be a name the person who did this was so and so . |
| 27 | Because if if you took the the ideas of Freud 's seriously , and a lot of people who work with groups , the therapeutic groups claim to , do you think you would come to the same conclusion as Heather , I mean c could you have for example a , a psychotherapeutic group could you do group psychotherapy ? |
| 28 | To what extent if if you accept the County Council 's proposed housing provision for Selby , and I appreciate that 's hypothetical but I er I think it would help me to get this element isolated from our discussion , otherwise we may go round in ever decreasing circles . |
| 29 | If if if you have the people doing it who know what they 're doing you 've really only got to look at what they 're counting . |
| 30 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |