Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 2 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
| 3 | When using very light yarns and particularly if working on a Passap/Pfaff. it is a good idea to knit eight or ten centimetres of waste yarn first , as this gives a little extra stability to the beginning of your skirt . |
| 4 | Communication is a social practice and even if systematic distortion is removed , existential determination is not . |
| 5 | So is n't it good for us rather than quibbling , rather than criticizing , and recognizing that we 've all got different abilities and perhaps if you had n't got one of those abilities there , the , the body that it speaks about , you see every part plays a part does n't it on our physical body and so we are in accommodation , we all have a part to play , and that 's the way we , we grow you see and we mature and we become better , able , equipped to go out and tell others , gives us confidence as well if we know what we 're talking about , that way we can learn , so never quibble about assignments and arrangements , never criticize brothers and sisters in the congregation . |
| 6 | Naturally , there are no perfect vacuums and even if we create a perfect vacuum inside the tube , the elements will ‘ outgas ’ ( the material will put out oxygen and other molecules from gases absorbed in the metal ) and the vacuum will not be perfect any more . |
| 7 | In public he expressed great contempt for the system , but he made use of it to an immoderate degree , particularly by bestowing honours — undue honours — on the least worthy of his personal friends and particularly if the suggestion was made by anyone close to him . |
| 8 | Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . |
| 9 | I 'd bum round the world looking for a lost cause and then if I found one I 'd settle down and try to save it . |
| 10 | Now apart from by taking land from the landlords which is pretty in unspecific , all of the others are , are s are straight , very moderate , very limited acquisitions and then if you go on where you 've got ta protect the middle peasant etcetera , then they are really very low key methods , you , you , you would not see that I think as being the return to land reform . |
| 11 | I wondered if he would teach the right things and even if he knew enough himself ! |
| 12 | But there was a post on the lonely road and sometimes if I was tired from hunting I would take stance on it for a few moments , to rest . |
| 13 | Other occupations have adopted the professional rhetoric and even if they have done so in order to enhance their status and monopoly or guild power , they have had to accept the concomitant constraints on self-interested behaviour . |
| 14 | At the moment , nuclear power contributes approximately three percent to our national consumption of fuels , a small figure and even if we multiplied it tenfold that would be thirty percent . |
| 15 | Language policies for education are highly charged political issues and seldom if ever decided on educational grounds alone . |
| 16 | It 's much tougher than amateur golf and even if you shoot a good round , you could be lying in only 10th or 12th place . ’ |
| 17 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's hard to believe she had this other life and yet if I met her now it would be difficult to dislike her . |
| 19 | So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box . |
| 20 | That 's the main thing and then if you 've got any questions afterwards hopefully we 'll still have time to go through a few questions . |
| 21 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |