Example sentences of "if it [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 If the acquiring company refuses to provide , or is incapable of providing , clear instructions , if it refuses to accept and/or pay for the equipment or software , if it tampers with the programs , misuses them and allows employees to copy them freely , the supplier will need to take action .
2 if it happens to give or here , and it does nay get away right
3 Mrs Blair added that any move away from the bid and offer system to single pricing would not be accepted if it threatened to reduce or ‘ dilute ’ the value of existing unit holders investments .
4 Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn .
5 The exposed skin was flushed and glowing ; here and there it resembled tanned leather and , in some cases , it looked as if it had split and healed , and split again .
6 If it had to finance that by raising its own taxes , Scotland might become a socialist state along Albanian lines with high taxes , centralised planning and everyone living in council houses and enjoying the beauties of the socialist system in its most untrammelled form .
7 It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’
8 my my guess is that by a side wind er can mix all the erm items on the list , terms would include erm maybe committed and maybe not committed expenditure expenditure and that if it does affect because erm there are some items erm in the erm not clear whether it 's committed or not Market Square er which we do n't want to support .
9 Never mind if it does mean that lunch is ten minutes late .
10 Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all .
11 If it fails to achieve that then the decision has not been properly designed .
12 if it starts to snow or hailstone , or pour down I want to try and carry the umbrella and it 's very difficult
13 So I do n't , I do n't know if it 's attached or anything , I do n't know .
14 Erm it 's the executor 's job to administer the will but if it 's known that there 's a mistake of course the executor on behalf of the estate can sue the solicitor .
15 If it 's known that they 're up and down like
16 If it 's worked or not , if it 's been a success or not
17 Or even even , if they show you a receipt , you do n't know if it 's stolen or not .
18 Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved .
19 ignoring the difficulties of following the advice of others from outside one 's own work setting , especially if it seems to suggest that one 's own expertise is to be supplanted by it
20 Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) .
21 Assuming the tribunal would not be so careless as to make such an oversight , it is submitted that if it did consider that the words ’ conduct of the employee ‘ in Sec 24 of the Industrial Relations Act , 1971 ( now Schedule 1 Para 6 ( 2 ) of the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act ) were impliedly qualified by something like ‘ in the course of his employment ’ , it was quite wrong .
22 Whether she had or not , he felt compelled to ask her a last question , even if it did annoy or depress her .
23 they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express
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