Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if we look beyond superficial disagreements we may find that today 's men and women of influence share fundamental beliefs and that these beliefs can inspire a common approach to community care . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think perhaps if you go over the field after Ben she would make |
| 4 | Perhaps if you write into PPC with your tales of which manufacturers do provide an adequate technical advice service and which simply expect you to look elsewhere we might all know who to avoid . |
| 5 | Perhaps if I lived in Bath I would have momentary doubts , but anywhere else in the country , I would rather die than not vote Labour . |
| 6 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 7 | Perhaps if I start by saying that er I have er produced a one page summary which was n't with my er initial statements , which I passed to Mr and to Mr , but if I could er pass copies of that to yourself and to the panel . |
| 8 | Perhaps if I believe in it , the magic will make me strong . |
| 9 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 10 | So it 's basically if they finish on the level points goal difference shall determine the final positions followed by the highest number of goals scored and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 11 | Would you mind terribly if I stayed at home ? ’ |
| 12 | And furthermore , ‘ one will understand nouns and verbs better if one thinks of the role that they adopt in narrative ’ . |
| 13 | Or , does the economy do better if they act as gardeners , nourishing the soil , pulling out the weeds , selecting the plants ? |
| 14 | This will depend on the nature of the dispute and the extent of the part played by lawyers in the proceedings , but , for the reasons set out below , lawyers will serve their clients ' interests better if they refrain from imposing too many legal formalities on the procedure . |
| 15 | Young , subordinate females will do better if they mate with a new male . |
| 16 | ‘ Better if they paid for some more staff . |
| 17 | I decided that things would work better if I upgraded by adding a 1 Meg expanded memory board to give 2 Meg of RAM . |
| 18 | The unwanted jongleurs even proffer tourist information : apparently if we disembark at Oxford Street we 'll be in one of the finest shopping centres in the world , so why do n't we ‘ all fuck off there and buy yer wives a mink ? |
| 19 | But Guatemalans can enjoy their freedom only if they stick to the unwritten rules . |
| 20 | Public transport , in contrast , is something that most people use only if they have to , with notable exceptions in the cases of some European cities . |
| 21 | Moscucci further argues that this historical situation is fully comprehensible only if we take into account the 19th-century debates about femininity . |
| 22 | Kenny disagrees : ‘ Anthropomorphism comes in only if we attribute to [ animals ] concepts whose possession can not be manifested by recognition and non-verbal reaction ‘ ( 1975 : 51 ) . |
| 23 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 24 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 25 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 26 | A pause , then very gently , ‘ Only if Ah have to . ’ |
| 27 | But it 's only doable , I 'm afraid that 's an Americanism that 's crept into our language , doable , erm only if you listen to the people who 've been doing it . |
| 28 | Only if you got beneath this front would you find out what a gentle and caring man he was . |
| 29 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 30 | Nothing terrible will befall if you eat a piece of pizza — only If you exist on a diet of nothing but pizza . |