Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : The facts suggest that if we apply the same argument as we outlined for vehicles then reducing balance would be the choice . |
| 2 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 3 | We suggest that if our company wishes to stop the decline in its drink sales and arrest the erosion of its market by competitors developing their units into catering outlets , it ought to enter the catering market as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | The last few years suggest that if there is a majority in the land it has been an anti-Labour majority . |
| 5 | We suggest that if there is a rise , which we have not seen , it is far outweighed by the higher consumption of both alcohol and tobacco north of the border . |
| 6 | The tipsters and sporting gentlemen who frequent the stables and have the inside running from the horse 's mouth as well as from the trainers and jockeys suggest that if you are seeking a handsome return on an investment you should sell your house and put the money on Alain Prost to win the world championship this year . |
| 7 | ‘ We strongly suggest that if you open a new course you want to get feet on greens quickly and that means building pay as you play courses . ’ |
| 8 | The figures also suggest that if you hold a qualification , you are half as likely to be unemployed as someone who has none . ’ |
| 9 | So to sum up , I suggest that if you are investing a sizeable sum for the first time , put most into two or three UK- based funds called , probably , UK Equity , UK General or UK Equity Income . |
| 10 | And some commentators suggest that , and I 'm thinking here particularly of MacPhearson in his book erm erm erm Possessive Individualism , The Theory of Possessive Individualism erm they suggest that if you , according to Locke , if you purchase or inherit property in the territory of a particular civil society that counts as express consent . |
| 11 | However , the TTJ also report that if you want the real cause of bird 's eye features , do n't ask a scientist . |
| 12 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we both realise that if we are booted off RCA , it 's back to a bedsit . |
| 14 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 15 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 16 | As he prepares to defend his reputation as well as what is inaccurately described as his undisputed world heavyweight title here tomorrow night against Riddick Bowe , he says : ‘ I realise that if I do n't win , I 'll be remembered as a bum . ’ |
| 17 | You realise that if I 'm unsuccessful , they will foreclose and we 'll be paupered . ’ |
| 18 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 19 | I often say that if we thought as much about the English language and teaching it and all that that means as the French do about their language and the Alliance Francaise , we would back the British Council to the hilt . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not exaggerating when I say that if we do not meet this challenge now , we shall be in serious trouble within less than a year . |
| 21 | ‘ With leukaemia in a child they say that if they are clear for five years , then all is well . |
| 22 | Sheriffs served writs on the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association and the two letter-writers say that if they are resolved of nothing else in life it is that , even if persuaded that their lavish handicaps would be significantly reduced by using Ping Eye2 clubs , they would never buy a set or play with anyone who has . |
| 23 | They always say that if they think you 've been in a fight , although it was still short of chucking-out time . |
| 24 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 25 | They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us . |
| 26 | The residents say that if their community development project disappears , it 'll be a step backwards , leading to an increase in the sort of social problems which once made the estate notorious . |
| 27 | People say that if I get a couple of days off I should go out driving and find some big old manor to stay in . |
| 28 | They say that if it keeps up we shall sail on time . ’ |
| 29 | That there was no canopy may be part of why I say that if it 's raining the balcony is wet , but it is not part of what I say . |
| 30 | Say that if he refused to allow us to marry you would even run away with me ? |