Example sentences of "if [adj] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If that happens as normal , then the puffins have a better chance of survival . |
2 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
3 | And if that sounds very magnanimous , then do n't forget we 're dealing with another in the line of self-deprecating Irish bands , who have about as much fashion sense and arrogance as The Undertones . |
4 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
5 | ‘ You can still be friends — and if that proves too difficult , then you can come home . ’ |
6 | If that seems too simple , then let me put what I believe to be a far more cogent argument , By bringing ‘ God ’ into this , are we not merely shifting something off ourselves ? |
7 | And then round it all off either by killing someone , or — if that seems too drastic a step — by getting yourself killed . |
8 | If this happens then normal contractual remedies are available to the aggrieved party if the statement turns out to be untrue . |
9 | If this happens very high pressures may result due , not to the wave itself , but to the pressure of the air compressed between the wave and the cliff . |
10 | Ultimately , this may be best achieved by transferring full responsibility for prisons from the states to the central government , or , if this remains politically unfeasible , by building more federal prisons as ‘ models ’ for the remainder ( an engine of reform in other countries with a similar federal structure ) . |
11 | Sorry if this sounds hopelessly vague and unhelpful , and unlike my ( I hope ) usual efficient self , but these are trying times . |
12 | If this sounds too complicated , do n't be put off . |
13 | If this sounds too outrageous then the art department of the local secondary school might take on the design and painting of a mural as a project for older pupils with children from the primary school working as their apprentices . |
14 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
15 | If this seems too severe , there is no denying that the development of the industrial co-operative sector has had little reason over the years to feel grateful to the Consumer Movement . |
16 | would you er still look at page thirty one please dealing with er , top right under the are there hidden costs ? , the answer to this is definitely no and then there are charges set out there , there 's the freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low there 's a freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low , small charge for using guest bedroom , use to keep the general running costs as low as possible , and then underneath them there 's a block service apartment costs , all maintenance , warden and management services , freehold security and then personal costs in an estimated weekly total , er did you know that that went into the brochure ? |
17 | would you er still look at page thirty one please dealing with er , top right under the are there hidden costs ? , the answer to this is definitely no and then there are charges set out there , there 's the freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low there 's a freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low , small charge for using guest bedroom , use to keep the general running costs as low as possible , and then underneath them there 's a block service apartment costs , all maintenance , warden and management services , freehold security and then personal costs in an estimated weekly total , er did you know that that went into the brochure ? |
18 | If all goes well this could boost its sales by around £2 million a year . |
19 | String theories , however , have a bigger problem : they seem to be consistent only if space-time has either ten or twenty-six dimensions , instead of the usual four ! |