Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 3 | I guess … because Galileo did it , or at least if what I know about him is true , this must be true . |
| 4 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 5 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 6 | You can do without that hassle and at least if you 've a good relationship you got a good . |
| 7 | But at least if his mother could tell , he reflected , she had not made any sign . |
| 8 | She wanted him not there , but at least if he would just stop , just for a minute , and say something to her . |
| 9 | ‘ It is bad enough losing their job but at least if they got the redundancy package that was available under Leyland-DAF , they would not be so badly off . |
| 10 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 11 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |