Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] if [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 For burglary if you have n't got locks on
2 There may not be much room in the house you are sharing with your parents for a baby , perhaps , or he may be worried about money if you intend giving up work .
3 Mark a D for difficulty if you think that expectation will cause you some difficulty .
4 Barristers may not be sued for negligence if they botch a case in court ; nor as a general rule is their incompetence a ground of appeal against conviction .
5 A registered elector over the age of twenty-one may be a candidate if not disqualified , but in addition people may stand for election if they have occupied property , been resident or had their main place of work in the area for at least twelve months .
6 But it is worth making the point that for instance if we take a look after eighteen fifteen of , at the wars .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 Asda for instance if you know the supermarket chain er now have er property services on their prem premises .
11 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 ) .
12 For instance if you 've missed your eighteen hundred on year two , if you put in three thousand six hundred
13 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 ?
14 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
15 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 .
16 For instance if you look at Selby , at forty two percent of its area constrained , and a high housing value requirement .
17 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 .
18 We ca n't ask those people for money if they 've already joined once .
19 Motorists should ask about hygiene if they have any worries . ’
20 ‘ It 's hard tae fight if ye have only one leg . ’
21 Has she not I mean she never watches it after tea if you notice , she 'll always go out and play or something .
22 Brussels is n't dead after dark if you know where to delve .
23 Many children and even some adults believe that they will suffer ghastly torments after death if they do not obey the priestly rules .
24 ‘ Please go , ’ Alexandra said , fielding the lion as he plunged at her , ‘ I 'll call for help if I need it .
25 Write to F1 for Help if you 've got a problem with your software , hardware or peripherals that you want sorting out .
26 Write to F1 for Help if you 've got a problem with your software , hardware or peripherals that you want sorting out .
27 Will you be able to call for help if you need it ?
28 This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now …
29 And who do you turn to for compensation if you 've just spent two hours in an eight-mile tailback on the A1 ? .
30 But if your complaint is that a less tangible term of your employment has been broken , as when you have suffered harassment from your superiors or your status has been eroded , it may be difficult to establish a viable claim for compensation if you do not quit .
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