Example sentences of "if [pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing is expressly said about the rights of one class in respect of either ( a ) dividends , ( b ) return of capital , or ( c ) attendance at meetings or voting , then , prima facie , that class has the same rights in that respect as the residuary ordinary shares . |
| 2 | Although their ancestors are native to the soft , acid waters of the Amazon , commercially available fish are happy in the conditions of most community tanks , and if yours were locally bred they are probably used to your tap water . |
| 3 | If I am already doomed , what have I to lose ? ’ |
| 4 | They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found . |
| 5 | I was not very grateful I am afraid , because I should be most surprised if I am not accepted . |
| 6 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 7 | And there , if I am not mistaken , is the ignoramus who was so aggressively rude to us at Al Forno . ’ |
| 8 | You are , if I am not mistaken , twenty-five years old , which is an age when , I am well aware , you could still meet and fall in love with a far younger man than I. However , from what you have told me , you have already given away your heart and have set aside any thought of another such love . |
| 9 | ‘ A man with much on his shoulders , if I am not mistaken . |
| 10 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
| 11 | And if I am not mistaken you could see share prices really motoring after that . |
| 12 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 13 | ‘ I love you dearly and I love the house but I could n't live here if I am not wanted . ’ |
| 14 | If I am not held up too much , I will gladly give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 15 | If I am not picked to play football I will probably play hockey . |
| 16 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 17 | It was the list of undesirable aliens who were banned from entering the Bahamas , and if my name was put on that Stop List , and if I was then thrown off the islands , I would probably never see my boat again . |
| 18 | If I was only allowed to have one jazz record this would have to be a contender , together with number 8 . |
| 19 | If I 'm temporarily taken out of circulation , then you 're in charge . |
| 20 | ‘ So just make sure you get the bastard if I 'm not given the chance to do the job myself . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can carry on here with Helen 's assistance — that is , if I 'm not called away , ’ Joanna said , but she had no sooner spoken than the telephone rang . |
| 22 | And if I 'm not mistaken that 's him outside now . ’ |
| 23 | You 've come to hear about a far yester-year and the life of Marie Grubbe , if I 'm not mistaken ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'm not mistaken , I pulled a pissed up matelot off that blonde piece on V.E. night . |
| 25 | Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock . |
| 26 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 27 | If I 'm not mistaken , their instruments are from the bass and viol family and have little to do with the guitar , either from a playing standpoint or a technical one . |
| 28 | ‘ If I 'm not mistaken , you 're Detective Inspector Murphy , ai n't you ? |
| 29 | Two wives and a mistress , who is n't really a mistress , but would like to be one , if I 'm not mistaken . " |
| 30 | Which means , if I 'm not mistaken , that you have n't come here to offer me my son back so much as to ask me to relieve you of Miss Gristy . |