Example sentences of "if [indef pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If no-one gets any money , then I 'm quite happy . |
2 | If everyone had identical tastes and endowments , then many public finance questions would lose their significance , and this is particularly true of the behaviour of the state . |
3 | But what would happen if everyone acted that way ? |
4 | And in the second cab , heading east , seeing the personnel , those who are faceless , and those who are all face , all hair and gesture , I wondered if everyone needed new identities when they came to New York . |
5 | It has to be rehearsed all together , it ca n't be done best if someone arrives two days before the performance . ’ |
6 | Then I thought that if someone wore embroidered lilies on jeans , it would be noticeable , and so on . |
7 | And what if someone misses one weeks papers ? ? ? |
8 | If someone has special talents or interests , ask them to run sessions for other residents rather than getting in an outsider . |
9 | Darlington doctor Roger James said last night : ‘ If someone needs urgent treatment they get it within a week . ’ . |
10 | ‘ Doping makes people so distrustful that if someone jumps two cms longer in a long jump , a cm higher in the pole-vault or lifts 2.5 kgs more than I do , the accusation is there . ’ |
11 | I believe that if somebody kills another person while drunk and at the wheel of a car , then that person should be disqualified for life . |
12 | Eligibility for such increases if somebody takes premature retirement and they 're actually below the age of fifty five the increases do n't apply until you attain you fifty fifth birthday . |
13 | For a given corpus size , if one uses coarser classification then more reliable but less precise predictions are obtained . |
14 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
15 | The quantity of animals killed was quite dramatic , and if one interpolates these figures into the nation |
16 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
17 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
18 | If one rejects this authenticity condition , then one has to find ways of presenting comprehension tasks so that the learner 's interest is engaged in spite of the artificiality , so that they are induced into co-operating with the contrivance . |
19 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
20 | It was true only if one accepted varying degrees of an absolute . |
21 | If one accepted this view one had to reject its main rival , the theory of the inheritance of acquired characters proposed by the French biologist Jean Baptiste Lamarck . |
22 | Even if one ignores any effects on the fetus and neonate , what about the mother ? |
23 | Such a roundabout way of replication means that if one gets similar results in different species , they are worthy of publication in their own right . |
24 | Even if one gets different results , they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims . |
25 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
26 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
27 | Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other . |
28 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
29 | If one integrates this thinking with the concepts underlying the SBU portfolio grids in strategic analysis , and especially if a successful cost-leadership and limit-pricing policy such as described earlier in this chapter is being pursued , one might expect to see a product ( SBU ) shift from ‘ Fine tuning ’ , through ‘ Pursue ’ , ‘ Awaken ’ , ‘ Scramble ’ and ‘ Salvage ’ , over the product life-cycle . |
30 | If one considers hierarchical assemblies in general , their evolution from their constituents is far more likely if they consist of relatively stable sub-assemblies which themselves are evolutionary products of an earlier period . |