Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone played the same chess game , it would be stalemate . |
| 2 | If everyone had the same preferences as individual i , the same pre-tax income Y i , and the same perception of the tax required , then there would be no disagreement over the level of public spending . |
| 3 | Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared . |
| 4 | . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops . |
| 5 | Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know , |
| 6 | ‘ If I get the same deal as I 'm getting now , I 'll stick with the Midland , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I am beginning to wonder if I inhabit the same planet . |
| 8 | Not if I know the same . |
| 9 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 10 | That 's if I have the same doctor of course . |
| 11 | What could we point to if someone chose the latter continuation , to show that he was wrong ? |
| 12 | You 'd be black yourself , Stephen , if someone said the same thing about Kate . " |
| 13 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
| 14 | So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here . |
| 15 | If you use the latter box , it even has a yellow knob to lock the box in four wheel drive for reverse . |
| 16 | If you use the latter make sure they can not be got at by children , wild birds or pets . |
| 17 | Not only must you spray regularly , but it 's a good idea to vary the brand of spray that you use ; the nasty wee beasties soon develop resistance if you use the same one over and over again , and that 's something worth taking the time to avoid . |
| 18 | If you apply the same consequences to both children — say , time-out — not only are you relieved of being judge and jury but you encourage them to avoid fights by cooperating or settling differences peacefully . |
| 19 | But if each file has got a unique name , then that ca n't happen , so er , if you copy the all the files in that directory have got nine four as part of the file name , then if it 's got nine three then , er , you wo n't be able to overwrite any files , you have two sets of files in there , and you can sort it out later on . |
| 20 | And apart from that , if you project the same issue onto cars , for instance , not many of us will ever own a Ferrari Testarossa or an Aston Martin , but are n't they wonderful ! |
| 21 | if you get the that 'll all be gone by tonight . |
| 22 | It 's a good idea to keep that test data , because later on , you 're almost certainly going to make changes and you 'll therefore need to re-test the system , and a quick way to re-test the system is to put all that test data in again and see if you get the same answers . |
| 23 | A and this time this this just this time just raise it to the one third and see if you get the same answer , to check it is the cube root . |
| 24 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 25 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 26 | Just pause to think , and you will realize that if you show the same ad to five different people there is a very fair chance that you will get five different judgements on its quality . |
| 27 | What I want you to do is try and work out if you spent the same , not the same amount of money but |
| 28 | If you take the latter point of view but you will also put your client 's character . |
| 29 | If you take the same walk every day , try to vary the routine , introducing and reinforcing training procedures , since this could be vital at other times . |
| 30 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |