Example sentences of "and if [pers pn] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 On the basis of experimental and clinical evidence , the hindbrain and branchial region of the head are particularly sensitive to the effects of retinoic acid but the phenotypes are complex and hard to interpret , and how and if they relate to Hox expression has not been clear .
2 ‘ People go to school to learn , ’ he said , ‘ and if they go to school to learn , at the end of the day they have to be marked in such a way that future employers or colleges know what they have achieved . ’
3 I also establish safety by showing I 'm able to take a hell of a lot of flack and stress and if they go to pieces , I 'll be there .
4 We er You always made friends with people , could talk to people and if they want to miserable they can be miserable , you 'd got to tell them a tale , whether you know it or not .
5 ‘ Those Albanians who want to look towards Belgrade I welcome them and if they want to be in Albania I 'll help them back there . ’
6 Ten years of Reagan armament which allowed it to , also bankrupted it ; without the USSR as enemy , not even the United States will permanently keep up this level , and if they wanted to , they could no longer afford it .
7 And if they have to be ruled by politicians , voters prefer Labour leader John Smith .
8 The others were very successful and if they continue to be successful it would be nice to hold them regularly , would n't it ?
9 If there is a common underlying theme or thread it would seem to be the unstated assumption that ‘ anyone can make it if they try , and if they conform to the rules ’ ; those who fail must suffer from some congenital lack of capacities , or be of an alien disposition .
10 ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels .
11 They must be produced by some other spirit , and if we attend to their ‘ constant regularity , order , … magnificence , beauty , and perfection ’ , we see that they must be produced by an ‘ eternal , infinitely wise , good , and perfect ’ spirit , which is God .
12 Since the transformations are similar , all the derived matrices B , C , D , … have the same eigenvalues as A ; and if we proceed to the diagonal form , then the chain product X3 … gives the modal matrix X.
13 The continuities between pre-war and postwar feelings of cultural deterioration are clear enough , and if we turn to questions of crime and violence in pre-war Britain then equally familiar complaints stare back at us .
14 Now the consequence of the fact that the dollar end of June er relatively strong at around one sixty of course did impinge on er our er borrowings since we do have a considerable percentage of our gross in dollar terms and if we turn to the next slide er we can see er the summary of the balance sheet at thirtieth of June .
15 And if we look to the people to play a more positive role , freely voicing their demands and hopes , their fears and grievances , as well as introducing ideas and initiating policies , it is surely plain that this can only happen in an atmosphere of the greatest possible freedom and openness , from which any taint of intimidatory anxiety or apprehension as to the possible consequences of speaking out is entirely absent .
16 Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’
17 Hugh was nearest to her , and if she arranged to be on the side of his wounded arm she thought it would be easy to get away .
18 Eight o'clock in the morning , and if she went to work then he hoped still to be in time to catch her before she locked the front door and shut out the intrusion of a man from the Service .
19 But tonight her face seemed frozen into its gracious expression , like royalty in a traffic jam , and if she wished to herself that Hilda would make the odd concession so that civil conversation with her could be easier , nothing of this appeared in her manner .
20 I 'll point it out to the girl and if she wanted to , it , it 's not a chair , but I think it 's more decorative than anything else
21 You know , look , I did a deal with Mrs Thatcher in nineteen eighty six , that I would n't open up many of these issues , and if she sticks to the deal , I 'll stick to the deal .
22 Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see
23 And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age .
24 So Steve and myself are er have done a done a bid that we should know today whether or not it 's going to the main group , and if it goes to the main group , there 's a great chance it 'll be accepted .
25 For example , if the notion of human rights is a meaningful one ( itself in hot dispute ) , and if it extends to all humans , including the severely and terminally brain-damaged , then how could we logically fail to extend the notion to at least some animals ?
26 And if it proves to be Berowne 's blood , then he died first , unless , of course , he staggered across to Harry after making one or more of the superficial cuts in his own throat .
27 And if it had to be done in the public sector then could it be done by a separate hived-off body or by a department ?
28 If the Life is later than that and if it belongs to the 730s or even 740s , however , it would again demonstrate that the relationship between a dependant or sub-king and his overlord was not inevitably confrontational but on occasion at least perfectly acceptable to both sides for as long , presumably , as it remained of mutual benefit .
29 And if it comes to facing the music , you 're not thinking of shooting it out with the police , I hope ?
30 And if it comes to that , how can I be here at all if I have n't been born yet ?
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