Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 32 | But it is worth making the point that for instance if we take a look after eighteen fifteen of , at the wars . |
| 33 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 34 | But if our interests are increasingly focused on different types of expression across a wide social framework , for instance if we are concerned to pursue the dissemination of vernacular innovation across the whole social spectrum , then our previous canons will prove inadequate . |
| 35 | For instance if one has a , a bucket of erm liquid helium , the helium will climb out of the bucket before your very eyes and empty . |
| 36 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 37 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 38 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
| 39 | When initial appointments are made over the telephone , for instance if someone telephones to ask about vacancies , these should also be confirmed in writing . |
| 40 | But poetry can appear " light " , for instance if it lacks the explicitly solemn moralizations of a Langland . |
| 41 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 42 | Yes for instance if I |
| 43 | Erm for instance if I feel I 've got to give Philip something er a tin of sweets is acceptable to both to both sexes is n't it ? |
| 44 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |
| 45 | His car may need to be specially adapted , for instance if he can not use his hemiplegic hand to operate controls or the hand brake . |
| 46 | He would be able to walk , and any work would be aiming to improve the quality of his walking , for instance if he had a slight limp . |
| 47 | Erm for instance if he 's asking for the child to go to live with him and you oppose that then then court would make a decision as to where the child s should live . |
| 48 | Another thing , if you have a facility for a portable mini-ramp , for instance if you have a hall to put it in , then contact Davie or Jamie on 041 339 6523 because they have one placed in storage just doing nothing . |
| 49 | There were all sorts of minor wins , for instance if you threw and your card laid perfectly along the edge of another without covering it , that was a ‘ touchee ’ . |
| 50 | For instance if you translate ‘ neighbourly behaviour ’ into ‘ altruism ’ or ‘ community ’ you are immediately into all the problems discussed from Tönnies and Durkheim onwards ( i.e. how and why solidarity is built upon kinship , common place , occupation , religion and so on ) . |
| 51 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 52 | It 's erm an area where two elements of the law do n't quite meet tidily and For instance if you worth four hundred thousand pounds big figure , and you had a hundred thousand of it in your own name and three hundred thousand jointly with your wife , wife die er you die , your estate for probate purposes is a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 53 | For instance if you 've missed your eighteen hundred on year two , if you put in three thousand six hundred |
| 54 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 55 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 56 | For instance if you look at Selby , at forty two percent of its area constrained , and a high housing value requirement . |
| 57 | I know the car 's essential but for instance if you 're going to an estate agent you 're not running round using the car in company time . |
| 58 | Asda for instance if you know the supermarket chain er now have er property services on their prem premises . |
| 59 | Well I 'm a bit worried when people are buying these guarantees and someone goes into liquidation , like for instance if you buy an extended warranty then usually dealers tie up with one particular broker specialising in that form of insurance , and and if that particular dealer — the car dealer — gets the insurance and it 's in his or her name |
| 60 | It 's more likely to throw everyone off course if it happens in a little room with a small audience . |