Example sentences of "if [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since 1984 , all new teachers entering the profession in England and Wales must have a degree plus postgraduate teacher training if their first degree is not a BEd .
2 if their first gig was
3 Betrayed if published as a £5.99 , B format paperback ; Bloomsbury says that most if its first print run of 15,000 copies has been subscribed .
4 Clinton behaved as if his first year at Oxford would be his only year .
5 By creating a tactical fighting mode , the beginner is able to change his approach , if necessary , for instance , if his first attack is stopped by a block .
6 This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper ; and , if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two , his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance .
7 If his first wife can not afford to live without benefit support from the rest of us , which is what state benefit is , the government has no money , it takes money out of other families who are struggling to bring their children up to give it to you .
8 Ruddock , 25 , signed a three year deal when he moved to Spurs from Southampton for £750,000 12 months ago , and claimed Venables promised him a renegotiated contract if his first season went well .
9 When asked if his first sniff made him fee sick , Carl had this to say : ‘ No , it 's something I enjoyed and I wanted to do more .
10 Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine .
11 Different centres of excellence will usually offer courses in their own specialism ; you may find you have to work away from home on secondment if your first choice is limited to only a few specialist centres .
12 If your first choice of hotel should happen to be fully booked , you 'll be offered the nearest alternative ‘ Go-As-You-Please ’ hotel .
13 Of course if your first name is Sebastian and your last name is Coe , then the scientists ' method is a good one to follow , but if you 're just an average slob like me , then my method is not a bad alternative .
14 That 's just me it 's that if your first name , although I 'll probably cross that out .
15 Certainly , once committed to a personal code , I can make value as well as factual judgments about your conduct ; but if your first principle is ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ and mine is ‘ Care only for yourself ’ , it seems that there is no objective test by which one of us can convince the other that he is right , as there is for an issue of fact .
16 If your first language is not English , you will be required to provide documentary evidence , in the form of good results from an IELTS , TOEFL or other approved test , of your competence in written and spoken English .
17 For example , if your first number is five , move to circle five and follow any instruction found in that circle .
18 So make sure you persist even if your first enquiry produces no immediate result .
19 In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) .
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