Example sentences of "and [adv] if it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If and only if it does , that route is followed , which means counting how many of the 26 bits are set up to and including the required one , to establish which member of the pointer array to follow to the next level in the tree . |
| 2 | And even if it does n't come naturally , most politicians develop the ability to be absolutely horrible whenever it is required . |
| 3 | , because carburettor icing is unlikely to occur on the ground , and even if it does , it is not dangerous |
| 4 | And even if it does capture a market , there is always the risk it may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals , such as tempeh and tofu , once the initial suspicions of meat alternatives are overcome . |
| 5 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 6 | However , this level of unreasonableness is hardly the norm , and even if it does exist would be difficult to prove . |
| 7 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |