Example sentences of "same [subord] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators .
2 So that the bill I would es estimate , if you have a solicitor as executor would be the same as if you had a private person as ex as executor who went to see that solicitor .
3 Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep .
4 The results will be exactly the same as if you sowed carefully in drill : a total of five seedlings will come up — four on the same square inch and the fifth in the crack on the path !
5 But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances .
6 You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience .
7 There are a few occasions where the expert does not have a contract with either or both of the parties , but as the relationship is a close one based on reliance , the expert 's liability is likely to be the same as if there had been a contract : see 14.11 .
8 At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all .
9 Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did .
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