Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , what 's she supposed to do if it goes off — waddle round the village telling us all to duck ? |
| 2 | There is little agreement on the ethics of recording without permission in situations like these , but Labov 's general principle seems to offer a sensible guideline ; it is that the researcher should ‘ avoid any act that would be embarrassing to explain if it became a public issue ’ ( Labov 1981 : 33 ) . |
| 3 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm happy to help if it means the right thing is done by poor Harriet . |
| 5 | So we can distinguish then a third state in w which we can call an inactivated state and which will leave the channel closed , but also unable to respond as it would be able to do if it resided in a simple closed in a simple closed state which were responsive to gating . |
| 6 | Had heard about it , read about it , but never actually experienced it , nor this violent awareness , and it would have been nice to see if it led anywhere . |