Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably some , who considered the idea of Making Ends Meet unacceptable and unbecoming , i.e. those enjoying the thrusting Live-Now-Pay-Later lifestyle of the 1990s , would think differently if they knew that the cost of borrowing the £5,000 that would extricate them from the consequences of their cavalier attitude would cost them almost another £5,000 . |
| 2 | Within 20° of the centre ( 3kpc ) , plots for both HI and CO similar to Fig. 4 show a decline in the maximum velocities with decreasing longitude ; this would arise naturally if gas were largely excluded from the central 3kpc . |
| 3 | Questions about the reasonableness of the amount charged would arise only if the concept was part of that contract . |
| 4 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 5 | She would eat fast if she felt like it . |
| 6 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 7 | Firstly , it could be argued that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution , and the Crown Office would need more if this was to proceed ; and secondly , that there was enough evidence to make it impossible to drop the case , but more was needed to make it substantial . |
| 8 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 9 | In the end , ten republics — including some that had declared independence — agreed a joint statement which indicated that a loose union would be established based on Russia and the Central Asian republics , and that around it there would be a ‘ common economic space ’ that would include most if not all of the republics that had been part of the USSR . |
| 10 | Supporters of random breath testing believe these figures would fall dramatically if it was introduced . |
| 11 | And not everyone believes demand would fall significantly if metering were introduced . |
| 12 | ‘ You would know immediately if you heard a Delta song . |
| 13 | Castro claimed that the country would survive even if " surrounded by an ocean of capitalism " . |
| 14 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 15 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 16 | Perhaps they would feel differently if , instead of an average order of ten or twenty coffins , one of the superstores came up with one for a thousand . |
| 17 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 18 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 19 | I think they would do well if playing with O'leary or Faircoulgh . |
| 20 | Up there she 's got no disrespect , somebody who 's not quite as bright as they might be er and she 's not working overtime as they would do here if they got behind , they 're working half eight to half four is it Ray ? |
| 21 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 22 | He argued that families would do better if their members were altruistic . |
| 23 | She suggested they would do better if they only sat five exams and spent the rest of their time on work which could give them a much broader education than just swotting for more GCSEs . |
| 24 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 25 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 27 | As a result , the body would not normally receive light during the critical period , but it would do so if the patient stayed awake all night or got up early . |
| 28 | He admitted that with prevailing high interest rates he was not particularly keen to mount a management bid , but would do so if it was the only way to safeguard shareholder value . |
| 29 | The Business as now carried on does not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any other person ( or would do so if the same were valid ) . |
| 30 | This would matter little if decision-making positions were occupied by women possessed of the requisite linguistic knowledge , but unfortunately for all of us , they are not . |