Example sentences of "if it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 62 | A junior conveyancer is equally obliged to his or her own client , and if it takes that member of the profession a little longer , or if they need to consult with senior colleagues before agreeing to a particular course of action , then so be it . |
| 63 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 64 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 65 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 66 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 67 | The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point … |
| 68 | In his refreshing book Mr Veseth looks at Victorian Britain , which improved on Florence 's commercial ideas , particularly public debt , and also went into decline ; and at present-day America , which is deeply in debt but might , he argues , avoid decline if it takes brave decisions . |
| 69 | One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow . |
| 70 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |
| 71 | The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements . |
| 72 | How near is your proposed venue to airports ( if it involves international visitors ) , and the road and rail links . |
| 73 | Not only is this desirable as a means of restricting monetary growth , but , if it involves cutting government expenditure ( as opposed to increasing taxes ) , it will also increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector and it is the private sector that monetarists see as the main source of long-term growth in output and employment . |
| 74 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |
| 75 | The government of Taiwan announced on May 11 that the vessel was free to dock in the country but that it would not be allowed to return if it violated international law by making unauthorized broadcasts to the mainland . |
| 76 | Unison will be formed next year if it gets similar backing from unions Cohse and Nalgo , and a secret ballot of the members of all three in November . |
| 77 | I was screaming , I was saying , ‘ I 'm in labour ’ , and she says , ‘ You 'll be okay — if it gets any worse give us another knock . ’ |
| 78 | ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’ |
| 79 | John Redwood , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , saw no mileage in his current job as local-government minister if it meant non-stop council-bashing . |
| 80 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 81 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 82 | They would gladly put up with a certain level of pregnancy risk if it meant fewer side effects . |
| 83 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 84 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 85 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 86 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 87 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 88 | This was the first time he had used this mechanism to force through legislation rejected by parliament , and the ANC warned that it would nullify the legislation if it gained political power . |
| 89 | 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 . |
| 90 | In practice — I doubt if it makes much difference . |