Example sentences of "if [indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 2 | It 's not as if one went on a week 's course and sat around specifically thinking about one 's courses . |
| 3 | It is a matter of common experience that if one heats up a poker in a fire it glows red hot and emits radiation , but bodies at lower temperatures emit radiation too ; one just does not normally notice it because the amount is fairly small . |
| 4 | Something about her nature which was without structure ; something which , if one put out a hand to touch , to join , simply dissolved . ) |
| 5 | ‘ It seems to me that if one sets up a quango and it spends 26% of the money disbursed on its own administration , that is a pretty high percentage . ’ |
| 6 | In general terms this means that if one sets up a trust to accumulate income , and the settlor has not completely divested himself of the trust property , he will be chargeable to income tax on the trust income . |