Example sentences of "[coord] if [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was singing ; people only do that either if they are drunk or if they are trying to collect some money , in which case they will sing and sing all day , having no other means of getting it . |
| 2 | At present , road blocks can only be set if the police have reasonable grounds for believing a serious offence is about to be committed , or if they are searching for someone who intends to commit an offence . |
| 3 | Never keep callers waiting while you look for information or try to transfer them , etc. , without explaining what you are doing and giving them a chance to call back if they are in a hurry or if they are calling long-distance . |
| 4 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 5 | Or if they are buying a pig in a poke at least they know that they are so doing . |
| 6 | All other teams are instantly relagated to shiteball teams and have no say in what they do or if they are honoured by an invitation from the team of the universe to play them then the scum also have the right to select the opposition team and to decide on the appropriate scoreline before the match begins . |
| 7 | So , if you have nice fish knives , or if they are provided in a private house or restaurant , use them ! |
| 8 | Even small degrees of enzyme inefficiency can have effects on other pathways if these are dependent for their functioning on products of the defective pathway or if they are inhibited by the build-up of substances prior to the block . |
| 9 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 10 | As soon as a character is within reach , or if they are attacked themselves , the Daemonettes attack and the illusion of their appearance is immediately dispelled . |
| 11 | If they have an appointment with somebody they try and turn up on time or if they are going to be late , they ring up and apologise . |
| 12 | Such documents may only be issued as outlined above or if they are exempted . |
| 13 | However , to the extent that standards differ , either goods can not be exported with a consequent loss of competition between countries , or if they are exported they have to be adapted to the rules of each national market . |
| 14 | Patients become bedridden only when they are terminally ill or if they are allowed to develop progressive scoliosis which results in intolerance of sitting . |
| 15 | And that 's why we do n't make money on carriage forwards cos we do n't sell carriage forwards for the positive reasons , we say , well if they do n't want them send them back , or if they 're damaged send them back . |
| 16 | Or if they 're placed significantly with larger things , the impact and interest of the contrast will give harmony to the group . |
| 17 | Or if they 're found out , perhaps , yes , having based their decisions on faulty material . |
| 18 | So you can see how they 're looking , see if they 're going pale a bit or if they 're going to fall off their chair and talk and reassure them . |
| 19 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 20 | Patients were not included in the study if they had undergone previous gastric surgery or if they were receiving cytotoxic drugs or >5 mg/day prednisolone . |
| 21 | Or if they were connected to the ‘ Prowler ? ’ |
| 22 | Or if they were going for a day then I might go down and |
| 23 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |
| 24 | Or if they were told that they could n't get so and so , that was it . |
| 25 | Or if we are implicated a little ( since doubtless some Gentiles and even some Jews have anti-Jewish feelings that they 're ashamed of ) , the implication I would guess is altogether more manageable than what happens when — Jew and Gentile alike , black as well as white — the educated elite is forced to confront its feelings about ‘ the Masses ’ . |
| 26 | If we are concerned with readers who have sensory deprivation , or if we are confronted with unfamiliar alphabets — in the writer 's case examples of these would be Arabic or Japanese — there may be much preparation before the process can continue . |
| 27 | We can call operator services if we are unable to locate the number of someone we wish to contact or if we are having difficulty in making the desired connection . |
| 28 | Or if we 're thinking of inviting an up-and-coming actor on the show , the researchers will find tapes of them being interviewed , usually from America , in order for us to watch them in action . |
| 29 | And if either mum likes to phone in , or come into the office tomorrow , by tomorrow you 'll know what we can do , or if we 're gon na do anything to help you . |
| 30 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |