Example sentences of "if [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Every person in this country earning between £10,000 and £30,000 would , if Labour implemented all its pledges , be worse off . |
| 3 | If Labour come to power we have been promised that access to the countryside for canoeists and ramblers will be reviewed at an early stage . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock promised that if Labour come to power , all that will change . |
| 5 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |
| 6 | A frail old dear enquired of us , with trembling voice , whether ‘ it is true that if Labour get in they 'll bring in compulsory euthanasia ? ’ |
| 7 | if Labour get in and they ca n't fulfil their promises |
| 8 | and Claire said to me oh well Labour if Labour get in we 'll get , we 'll get a , you know , we 'll be much better off , we 'll get a much better grant , er Jane goes but oh we 'll get , we 'll get every erm , my mum and dad will get loads of other things er dad , I wo n't be able to pay for it , I goes well no because you probably get , you get the housing benefit back |
| 9 | good gracious well I worry what 'll happen to the health service if Labour get in |
| 10 | and they are excepting a lump sum from the Government and they 're going to manage themselves and make a going concern of it as a business and any profits they get will go back to that hospital , well the community unit are opting out as well , they 're hoping to opt out , but if Labour get in , they 're gon na do away with all that and they want to undo all the one 's that have opted out , I mean I du n no how the hell they 're gon na do it |
| 11 | Big headlines saying if Labour get in today will the last person out of Britain please put the lights out . |
| 12 | If Labour get in what ? |
| 13 | It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out . |
| 14 | There would quite rightly be an outcry if Labour took this course of action . |
| 15 | Motor industry executives believe that many people held off buying until after the election because of uncertainty about higher tax bills if Labour took office . |
| 16 | If Labour took all 42 , it would still be 13 seats short of an overall majority . |
| 17 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 18 | Mr David Mellor , Treasury Chief Secretary , claimed that if Labour went ahead with the tax increases proposed by Mr John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , money would be taken out of the economy just when extra spending was needed to boost demand . |
| 19 | If Labour came to power , it would remove all that money and thus deprive the public of the pleasure of the special exhibitions that are staged as a result of the charging policy . |
| 20 | He added , cynically , that if Labour came in ‘ it would be too weak to do much harm , but not too weak to get discredited ’ . |
| 21 | If Labour win the election it wants to introduce a fair rates system with up to date , thorough property valuations linked to a tenant 's ability to pay . |
| 22 | If Labour win the election all road building and improvement schemes will be delayed by at least six months . |
| 23 | Election ‘ 92 : Vengeful undertaker waiting in the wings Godfrey Barker on the man who may succeed Kinnock if Labour lose |
| 24 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 25 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock indicated yesterday that , even if Labour became the majority government , he would make a strong appeal for consensus inside and outside Parliament and move away from the ‘ confrontational ’ politics of the past 13 years . |
| 27 | IT WOULD not be a catastrophe if Labour won on Thursday . |
| 28 | When we first began to meet and talk in 1963 , he was expecting to be offered a Cabinet post in education if Labour won and he could keep in step for long enough . |
| 29 | The London embassy conjectured that Anglo-American relations might suffer if Labour returned to office . |
| 30 | JOHN SMITH , the shadow Chancellor , yesterday set the overriding tone for this week 's Labour Party conference with a warning that he would impose tough spending controls if Labour won the next election . |