Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] if [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 2 | If you are not entitled to a State pension in your own right , you will receive the dependant 's rate of benefit , i.e. about 60 per cent of the full rate ( or less if your husband is not entitled to a full pension ) . |
| 3 | Leave for 2–3 mins , or more if your hair needs it , then rinse off with warm water . |
| 4 | Through my mind there reverberated the words from Portrait of a Lady , ‘ Memories of my dead life , and Paris in the Spring ’ , the meaning of which every lover of Paris can echo , even if he had no dead life in either George Moore 's or Eliot 's sense , or even if his most memorable visit to Paris took place , as mine did , at another season . |
| 5 | If Rory Collins were an activist , or even if his links with terrorists were palpable , then things were bad indeed . |
| 6 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 7 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 8 | ‘ These have been Jeremy 's best sessions so far , and hopefully if his luck changes the team will not be surprised if he should get into the points . |
| 9 | Their economies are failing and even if their players become wealthy by staying at home , there is not a lot for them to buy . |
| 10 | , And even if their defence lacks the stability of United 's , Walker 's ’ realistic ’ aim of earning a place in Europe , is not beyond them . |
| 11 | And even if their mother tongues are unrelated , the problems faced by the native English speaker will not necessarily by the same as those faced by the native French speaker , for instance . |
| 12 | Few teachers are appointed for only one of the three tasks and even if their hands are full with teaching or with a senior teacher 's responsibilities or a large clutch of pastoral duties in their early days , they will know from the head what kind of organization they are joining . |
| 13 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 14 | And even if my eight have sunk to the bottom , it is too late for anyone to interfere with this battle now . |
| 15 | Humane destruction is not easy to face and even if your pet drifts off peacefully in your arms , you can still be left with a feeling of guilt . |
| 16 | Forward the answer to CALE 'S NO 10 And even if your card is not the first hauled from the bag , you might still prove a winner , because NME has 20 COPIES of a special promo three-track CD , ‘ Lonesome Town ’ / ‘ Low Rider ’ / ‘ Passion ’ , to hand over to runners-up . |
| 17 | And even if your Centre does n't have the part you need , if they order it from our National Parts Centre before 3.30pm , provided it 's in stock , it will be delivered to any Centre in the mainland by 10.30am the next day . |
| 18 | And then if your blood pressure does go down a bit it does n't matter cos you 're lying down . |
| 19 | and then if your st |
| 20 | and my Lord the my Lord you 'll see at the bottom of page sixty nine , this is the latest edition just published this summer my Lord , erm at the bottom of page sixty nine you have an extract from the European community treaty which er defines a directive and you will see my Lord says in terms that it leaves to the national authorities the choice of forms the methods , and then if my Lord could read the passage er under that on page seventy |
| 21 | And then if me answer was wrong trying |
| 22 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 23 | The ward is the ideal place for learning , but only if its full potential is realised . |
| 24 | Local knowledge can be brought to bear , but only if its possessors share with management a common vision that values contribution of one 's special understanding , particularly when that understanding is different from that of others . |
| 25 | Third World country banks ( Japanese are very much in mind ) will be able to establish subsidiaries in the EC and enjoy the benefits of an enlarged market , but only if their home country reciprocates in respect of Community banks . |
| 26 | It could be my fifth-preference vote , but only if my first , second , third and fourth preferences have become for whatever reason inoperative and worthless . |
| 27 | Of course , we may call our doubt ‘ total doubt ’ or charge it with being unbelief , but only if our purpose is to stop doubt short and see that it does not become unbelief . |
| 28 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 29 | But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him . |
| 30 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |