Example sentences of "[prep] if the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 2 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 3 | If the War Altar is destroyed of if the Theogonist leaves it he is dealt no magic cards , and will not be able to cast spells . |
| 4 | There is then a pause , followed by one of the following messages : — and possibly one of if the H strip message has appeared . |
| 5 | ‘ What about if the company no longer exists ? ’ |
| 6 | You 're thinking about if the ball is coming to you you 're watching the ball . |
| 7 | Now how about if the cat if your cat had strayed how would you spell that ? |
| 8 | So if you have a look at those and play with them for next time erm and make sure that you learn those two rules about if the signs are the same |
| 9 | Erm number one asking for the completion had been worthwhile , very good there , reminded er John why , yeah that was excellent , thought you handled the objection well , you know , about if the person walked through , that was good , everything else was tick tick tick erm sound pretty enthusiastic there , that little extra note , excellent voice , quite enthusiasm again controlled but not appear too pushy , it was very controlled |
| 10 | Yeah well what about if the fire was down that end ? |
| 11 | Yeah well what about if the fire 's between the box room and this exit ? |
| 12 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 13 | It is as if the war , crisis , living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end . |
| 14 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
| 15 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 16 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps we could have lunch before you go ? ’ she forced out , as if the idea was merely spur of the moment , merely friendly , merely pleasant . |
| 18 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 19 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 20 | He was often ten minutes late , as if the minutes had been timed exactly . |
| 21 | The poses come as pauses at the end of each sequence , the dancer then changing position before beginning a new phrase , as if the guitarist were resting his fingers fur a moment . |
| 22 | This was followed by a wedding staged as if the Bride and Groom were being manipulated as puppets by a group of servants , a particular japanese theatrical tradition . |
| 23 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 24 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 25 | They add up to a novel of leaking secrets and amputated thoughts , of wildly comic material sometimes dully , almost dutifully deployed , as if the humour had escaped the teller ; of people ‘ missing ’ each other in dialogue |
| 26 | It has become common form to invoke the magic names of the French theorists , as if the names alone would cause a torpid academic establishment to collapse . |
| 27 | It was as if the ‘ logical conservatism' ’ of his remark was more significant and more offensive to his ( predominantly left-wing ) audience than its thoroughly socialist content . ’ |
| 28 | We act as if the anti-Semitism comprehended the Fascism — which would be true only if all Fascists were anti-Semites ( they are n't ) , and if all anti-Semites were Fascists ( even less true ) . |
| 29 | as if the Known Sea still were a month wide — |
| 30 | The crowd had swollen to about 70 by now , standing in a respectful arc , as if the stage was protected by a sci-fi forcefield . |