Example sentences of "but if [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Runcom has probably made more original contributions to more branches of the subject than any other geophysicist ; but if history judges his work on that basis alone , it will come up with an incomplete assessment . |
| 2 | But if romanticism suits the Devil because it has a habit of slipping us into unreality-away from the real battle — it has an even more pernicious aspect . |
| 3 | ‘ At a time of high inflation , two or three percent flexibility a year is fine , but if inflation goes up to 12 per cent , you 're in trouble and the profit is wiped out . ’ |
| 4 | There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse . |
| 5 | Now inflation 's very low at the moment , but if inflation took off again and got into double figures , then not only would your pensions suffer , but your bills would go up as well . |
| 6 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 7 | But if schizophrenia made Van Gogh a better painter so the spectrum of writing in the Bible makes it a more reliable testament of the religious life of man . |
| 8 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 9 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 10 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 11 | But if marriage turns out to be less than satisfactory in the arena of personal fulfilment , this is not only for the marriage partners . |
| 12 | But if knowledge proceeds on what must be presupposed before it is proved , the cover is blown on the pretensions of critical doubt . |
| 13 | But if Prince pleases , in music , in bed , it 's because nothing is ever done just to please . |
| 14 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 15 | If DELAY is not zero control is immediately returned to the main program , but if DELAY has reached zero the next step command is sent to the excitation sequence control and DELAY is loaded with the next value from the look-up table — The times between step commands are therefore proportional to the ( constant ) clock period and the look.up table values . |
| 16 | Under a block tariff , the initial kWh purchased carried a high price , but if consumption increased the extra blocks of kWh were charged at a significantly lower rate . |
| 17 | The initial plan was for one 24-hour stoppage , but if management did not respond this could turn into a rolling programme of one-day strikes . |
| 18 | But if school does not retain some ability to perform this apparently fruitless activity , it will in fact have lost its purpose . |
| 19 | If you ca n't run , use reason to dissuade your attacker , but if reason fails you will have to stand and fight . |
| 20 | But if religion does not match the will of God it is ultimately futile ( see , for example , Isaiah 29:13 ) . |
| 21 | But if socialism has collided with the future , capitalism too faces its own fair share of phantoms , many of them internally generated . |
| 22 | But if war breaks out between America and our country , no one will be able to stop it . |
| 23 | But if fear gives way to fury — as has happened with the formation of this vociferous pressure group and watchdog — those feelings need no longer be followed by a sense of frustration and impotence . |
| 24 | But if airway going to make a gesture , it 's best not to do it while airway white-hot . |
| 25 | But if fighting appears inevitable , you do n't have to wait to be hit first . |
| 26 | But if sound set back filmmaking style by several years , it offered a great boom for the British film industry . |
| 27 | But if horse went on his own you 'd have to put it on . |
| 28 | But if trouble came looking for me I was n't going to be hard to find . |
| 29 | But if trouble comes , it 's able-bodied people with a head on their shoulders like yourself and your friends that will be needed . ’ |
| 30 | It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely . |