Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many ailments which are blamed on old age could be avoided if everyone ate a healthy diet . |
| 2 | If we further take account of intergenerational differences , then the coefficient of variation over all generations , denoted by , is the weighted sum of individual plus the coefficient of variation obtained if everyone had the mean income of their generation ( the ‘ between-generations ’ inequality ) . |
| 3 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 4 | To see clearly that the selection of the parameter γ 2 affects the distribution of output around its natural level , we follow Barro 's procedure and first derive what real output in a typical market would be if there were full current information ; that is , if everyone knew the current value of all the shocks affecting the economy . |
| 5 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 6 | If I make a black man sweep up my trash , empty my dustbins , wash the vomit from my floor and kill for me in my imperialist wars … well , what do you think ? |
| 7 | Yes , well I did n't call , but I did said Jane , well you leave , well I 'll leave you to it said Mr Sandy , if you would come upstairs , the policeman and Jane entered her room , please look in the cupboard , I think we 've got a case Sarge , do you mind if I make a quick phone call ? |
| 8 | If I make a large number of such measurements the theory enables me to calculate the proportion of times the electron will be found " here " and the proportion of times it will be found " there " . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it is better for the club if I make a clean break . |
| 10 | ‘ If I make the other person happy then I feel great . |
| 11 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 12 | I once asked my stage director what would happen if I made an unexpected ritardando . |
| 13 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 14 | He noticed that he was being drawn into making the decision by the ‘ we ’ ; and so he said , ‘ Well , speakin' for meself , it would sicken me if I thought the young 'un got into his hands . ’ |
| 15 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 16 | He points out that if I tear a living system apart into its component atoms , I kill it . |
| 17 | If I heard the hon. Gentleman correctly , he suggested that redundancy pay for displaced miners was excessively generous . |
| 18 | It really does n't matter if I 'm a nice guy or not , or if I wrote an awful book . |
| 19 | If I survive the Wee Green Patriot , we 'll go for him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If I kept a careful check on your movements — which I do n't — I can assure you it would not be for sentimental reasons . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd suddenly start weeping if I saw a pregnant woman . |
| 22 | If I saw an Indian girl being beaten up , I might just watch or walk away . |
| 23 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 24 | Professor Lock would erm have something to say if I raised the final one so I sha n't do that . |
| 25 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 26 | If I got a new beat , I 'd go round the beat and say , ‘ Get to the kerb ! ’ and they 'd move to the kerb reluctantly . |
| 27 | it 's that or a new head torch , but if I got a new head torch it , it perhaps but they 're about , they 're about thirty quid I think |
| 28 | What happens if I get a mild reaction ? |
| 29 | If I get a decent vote I intend going to the Guinness Book of Records for the highest number of votes for the smallest expenditure . ’ |
| 30 | I 'll try to slip over if I get a spare minute . |