Example sentences of "[det] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 2 | He argued , quoting The Green Book , that all children should have the opportunity of education , and he thought it most improbable these girls would have this if they had to travel to Zawiya . |
| 3 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 4 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 5 | Fuel-burning appliances need an adequate supply of air to work efficiently and safely , so unless they have balanced flues , the rooms where they are sited must contain provision for this if they are well sealed against natural draughts . |
| 6 | They will never do this if they are running around loose . |
| 7 | However , they will only do this if they have a chance of hitting an adventurer — if a spell such as Zone of Sanctuary is in operation , for instance , the Skeletons will bide their time . |
| 8 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 9 | it 's no good saying to someone come on you should know this if they do n't it does n't help does it . |
| 10 | Why go through all this if they already have the answers ? |
| 11 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 12 | Obviously they will be much more willing to do this if they already have plenty of spare liquidity . |
| 13 | Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ? |
| 14 | We must continue to do this if we are to safeguard its future reputation . |
| 15 | We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one . |
| 16 | We can see this if we take an example . |
| 17 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 18 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 19 | We can easily understand this if we assume that dialect A is ‘ standard SBE ’ , and dialect B is ‘ Cockney ’ . |
| 20 | So you could try it like this if we had twenty four we could see what happens if you make them into twos ? |
| 21 | We can see this if we consider what would have happened if the only problems animals had had to face had been those posed by the weather and other aspects of the nonliving environment . |
| 22 | Heaven forbid I would n't talk to you like this if we were on the air would I ? |
| 23 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 24 | It would help us to implement this if we knew our concerns were going to be addressed with research ’ . |
| 25 | Originally nine of them , now six , skip this if their images are as stamped in your Find as they are in mine . |
| 26 | But they can not do this if their minds and emotions are already sealed tight against it — if they assume that religion is outdated and not worth studying . |
| 27 | It is easier to do this if one can switch course , yet still be working within the framework of broad objectives . |
| 28 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 29 | Luckily , one only notices this if one stays sober oneself , so the solution is as pleasant ( at the time , at least ) as it is obvious . |
| 30 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |