Example sentences of "[coord] if it be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea .
2 And if it 's big and scarey , you still have fun .
3 And if it 's determined that you are to return to work then your pension would actually will cease .
4 I think it depends , if , if it 's red , whether you 've got time to let it breathe properly , and if it 's white whether it 's got time to , to be chilled properly .
5 Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated .
6 If this is indeed so , and if it is true that the latency period is in decline as an important cultural phenomenon , then it seems difficult not to conclude that in some very significant respects modern Western child-rearing practices are approximating more to those of pre-Neolithic , pre-agricultural societies like those of the Australian aborigines than to modern industrial ones .
7 It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 .
8 And if it is clear that they have exercised their right of choice , problems can still arise in determining what precisely they have chosen .
9 He 'll undergo surgery tomorrow morning and if it is more than just a simple fracture , it could mean an early end to his cricketing career .
10 And if it was true that Sabine Jourdain would never have betrayed Durance , why was she killed ?
11 But if it is inconceivable that he could successfully shepherd nervous unionists through new talks with their nationalist counterparts and Dublin , equally his head can not be sacrificed in a Labour-Unionist deal to take Neil Kinnock to Downing Street .
12 New evidence is not usually heard , but if it is material and could not reasonably have been heard by the Panel the Committee may hear it or refer it back to the Panel .
13 But if it is new and a lot of people go there , they will be angry , and it will be difficult to buy it .
14 If she 's not in the district that will be difficult but if it is possible if she 's in the district we order that she attends at transfer sessions the outgoing licensee .
15 But if it is true that change is not always linear , then surely even the average candidate must know this , if he is to understand the concept of change .
16 We have no way of measuring the immediate impact of this writing on Jewish readers because we have no document we can safely date about 300 B.C. But if it is true that Kohelet , Ecclesiastes , wrote in the early third century B.C. , one must acknowledge that at least one of the Jewish sages was not prepared to play the part the Greeks had assigned to him .
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