Example sentences of "but if [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if everybody would like them ? |
| 2 | It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world . |
| 3 | But if one could aim films at a European market of 300 million people , that would be a very different story . |
| 4 | Superintendent Roger Arnold said : ‘ We 'll try to find the owner but if we ca n't the boys could end up keeping their catch . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 6 | alright , they move it out of Switzerland but if we ca n't have it here we 'll have it in Pakistan or somewhere where they want the money ! |
| 7 | Just do n't send him but if we ca n't afford it then , we just do n't know what 's gon na happen do we ? |
| 8 | But if we ca n't then we take him out of Saint Christopher 's next year and put him in a state school . |
| 9 | I doubt if most would take this view ; but if we would not , then we are forced to try to define with care the point at which handicap does become good reason . |
| 10 | ‘ It was not as much a question of whether we would take a new step in our computerisation , but if we would subcontract it out , ’ said Olivier and Xavier Decelle , Picard 's president and managing director , respectively , in an article in Les Echos . |
| 11 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 12 | But if we must have myths , the real facts about vampires could tell a different moral tale . |
| 13 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 14 | But if we can view ‘ nationalization ’ as the ironing out of local political characteristics during the 1950s and 1960s , ‘ reappraisal ’ has meant more than their simple re-appearance during the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 15 | But if we can say Yes to this acid test , then we will find several other reasons for planting churches today which will spur us on to do so . |
| 16 | But if we can sometimes lift our eyes from our own problems and focus on those of others , it will be at least a step in the right direction and Christmas is a good time to take it , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ I have seen them but if we can produce the form we have shown in our last eight to 10 games we can win , ’ said Rutter . |
| 18 | ‘ If they each do their own thing they will repeat things , but if we can bring that all together and have a centralised repository for the work that people have done , it will save having to reinvent the wheel each time . |
| 19 | ‘ But if we can find the funds in future we would want to reinstate the service . ’ |
| 20 | Your ma 's bad , but if we can get this baby born she 'll be all right . |
| 21 | I know they 're asking more than we want to pay , but if we can assemble a package of cash , stock options , and newly issued shares as a good inducement , I think we 'll convince the key manager and he 'll persuade the others to sell . |
| 22 | At each moment the effect may be intensely impressive , but if we can not remember anything with precision afterwards , the music is lost again forever , and its value is therefore diminished . |
| 23 | But if we can not recognise something as it stands we try to analyse it into parts that we can recognise . |
| 24 | But if we can assume the police inspector really existed — you did hear him speak ? |
| 25 | But if we can narrow the time down — or rather , widen it out , Lewis … ’ |
| 26 | But if we can turn , because , because Derek did , did request to come along on this specific item , er , and it 's the , the yellow papers , er , on Oak Farm . |
| 27 | But if we can win decent possession those backs are good enough to run through New Zealand 's defence . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm setting a deadline to open the course in spring 1994 , but if we can have it open in the late summer of 93 that would be ideal , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Yeah but if we can get him onto the computer system he 'll do two days a week if he can do it |
| 30 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |