Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if they go to the toilet and take just a little longer . |
| 2 | He has no method , or if we insist on the word , a different method for each child . |
| 3 | But , she said to herself , if Alida were not here , or if anything happened to the daughter before the mother , then Eleanor would have to go away . |
| 4 | That 's right , if the sho if the top part of the shoe went that was the only you got a new pair or if or if it burst around the sole and the seam . |
| 5 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 6 | ( 2 ) If you know who they are , write to the conveyancers for the seller or buyer , as the case may be , confirming that you are acting for your client , and if your client is the buyer asking for the draft contract documentation , or if you act for the seller , either sending or promising to send the draft agreement for sale . |
| 7 | so erm er or indeed it may be if , if you ask him or if you ask in the general office it may of erm tt it may have it may have been marked by now and so er |
| 8 | Issue ( i ) turns on the difficult distinction between consideration and the performance of a condition precedent to a gratuitous promise , or if you like on the equally difficult question of intent to contract . |
| 9 | If you consider that your name should not appear on the Register , or if you disagree with the details shown in your entry then you have the right to appeal . |
| 10 | At the same time they must express the higher and spiritual aspirations of life through their beauty , unless they represented these aspirations by their very existence , as did books and musical instruments , which remained surprisingly functional in design , apart from fairly minor surface flourishes , or unless they belonged to the realm of pure utility such as kitchenware and luggage . |
| 11 | You know when things got fresh she 'd perhaps have enough for all week or till you went on the Tuesday , you see , yeah . |
| 12 | Be on the look-out when ordinary people are despised because they do n't speak the way you do , or because they come from the council estate . |
| 13 | If his novels are in any way romantic , it is because of the melodramatic plots , whether ( as in Poor Jack or Jacob Faithful ) they have a rags-to-riches theme or whether they turn on the discovery that the humble hero ( like Percival Keene or Willy Seymour ) is really of noble birth . |
| 14 | Ministers of course always determine for themselves whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they come to the despatch box and make a statement . |
| 15 | Near-surface diagenetic environments are further subdivided depending on whether the pore spaces are saturated with fluids , within the phreatic zone , or whether they lie above the water table so are partially fluid filled and partially gas filled , within the vadose zone ( Fig. 5.15 ) . |
| 16 | We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss . |
| 17 | National Government , then the time has got to come at so some stage as to whether you defend a principle of Lincolnshire being a de a longer term debt free authority , or whether you look around the county and say , important services must be protected . |
| 18 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 19 | And er I remember going to the doctor 's with me Mother and where as we sat in the surgery which was packed , eventually the old doctor come out of the door old . |
| 20 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 21 | Single and over forty , or as they say in the world of women executives , SINBAD ( Single Income , Neurotic , Bankable and Desperate ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps it is as you travel to work , or as you take the dog out for a walk , or as you walk on the Downs , or when you have that quiet morning cup of coffee . |
| 23 | Do n't give this copy away to Oxfam or when they collect for the hospital . |
| 24 | If this bracing action is not achieved at the top of the backswing , it will be caused either by the right foot folding over on its side during the backswing , or the right knee moving out of alignment with the toes , before or when you arrive at the top of the swing . |
| 25 | The trouble is , Masklin thought that once we got outside the Store we 'd all be digging and building and hunting and facing the future with strong chins and bright smiles . |
| 26 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 27 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 28 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 29 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My philosophy with Jim was that once you go onto the court , play every point deliberately . |