Example sentences of "[conj] if [pron] [adv] want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right : If your floorboards are even , but discoloured , or if you just want to give a floor the individual touch without spending too much , why not use paint to create colourful patterns and an interesting effect |
| 2 | If you have any sort of problem — or if you just want to put some magic back into your sex life — you 'll find the answer here . |
| 3 | erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will . |
| 4 | But it leaves us admitting that if we ever want to say that such a statement is determinately true , we must admit that there are facts in virtue of which it is true but which lie beyond the possibility of verification . |
| 5 | The last set of ideas which I want to discuss , which is not which are only partly related as a matter of fact to the erm ideas of the punctuationists , are the ideas , which , as a matter of fact my colleagues here Brian Goodwin and Gerry Webster have been particularly clear and eloquent advocates , which say in effect that if you really want to understand evolution , merely thinking about the adaptation of organisms to some kind of environment is not really an adequate way of thinking about it , because when you look at organisms , look at vertebrates for example , you 'll find an astonishing range of kinds of ways of life . |
| 6 | And if you really want to know what I think , it 's that you Cretaceous people are insanely arrogant . |
| 7 | And if you really want to get away from it all you can hire a whole Caribbean island , all to yourself . |
| 8 | But if you simply want to enjoy the birds , you will want to visit the Society 's reserves and see for yourself what wonderful places they are . |
| 9 | But if you just want to take it easy , the three-star camp site offers a swimming pool , a good restaurant and local folk dancing on a Saturday night . |
| 10 | But if you really want to punish me , force me to sit down and watch The Gladiators . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but if you really want to know about team orders there is only man to ask Frank ( Williams ) , ’ was Hill 's reply . |
| 12 | But if you really want to rub a Mac user up the wrong way , hit them will the argument that now Quark is available for the PC , the only real reason for using a Mac has disappeared . |