Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all very well for all the major computer manufacturers to say that all the money is in software and services these days , and that hardware is a commodity business , but if no-one wants to make the hardware , there 's no industry . |
| 2 | Everyone has their own ideas about how it should be done , but if everyone agrees to lift it together , it suddenly becomes a very easy task . |
| 3 | ‘ Mother Machree ’ and even if everyone hated to admit it to his face , Father Mooney sang it well , considering he was a man that had no formal training at Ingham 's . |
| 4 | What are the dangers if everyone tries to improve everything ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That 's if nothing happens to make me cry off . ’ |
| 6 | It seems that I pay an extremely small price for a program from the supplier , and that I also have to pay the author if I wish to use it . |
| 7 | If I wish to maximise my impact on improving human life , I can do so best by putting my effort into activities I know are unlikely to take place otherwise and into small-scale ventures where I can actually see results for my efforts . |
| 8 | But if I wish to enjoy myself dabbling in cooking or in playing the stock exchange then I should try and form my own judgment . |
| 9 | Can I extend my covenant , if I wish to continue making payments over a longer period ? |
| 10 | I will inform the bank in writing if I wish to cancel this Instruction . |
| 11 | I will inform the bank in writing if I wish to cancel this instruction , and I understand that if any direct debit which breaks the terms of this instruction , the bank will make a refund . |
| 12 | Q. What happens if I wish to stop paying premiums ? |
| 13 | Thus the doctor who tells me to take a drug , if I wish to recover from a sickness , is expressing a hypothetical imperative . |
| 14 | What if I wish to give small amounts regularly over a period ? |
| 15 | What if I wish to give a sum of capital or a sum in excess of my annual taxable income ? |
| 16 | If I wish to buy a manufactured object from a shopkeeper , the shopkeeper must first obtain it from a wholesaler , the wholesaler must then in turn obtain it from the manufacturer , who must in turn obtain components and raw materials from other suppliers further down the line . |
| 17 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 18 | I am just an ordinary Daleswoman and if I began to think or act otherwise I know a few people around here who would soon bring me to my senses . |
| 19 | Instead of stopping , I ran even more , promising myself that if I began to feel ill , I would heed the warning . |
| 20 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
| 21 | ‘ But would n't it be better if I came to see her , just to meet her , so that she knows who you 're with ? ’ |
| 22 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 23 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 24 | The trouble was I chose the wrong product if I hoped to make myself a fortune . |
| 25 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
| 26 | It was a test , I decided , with one hell of a reward if I managed to pass . |
| 27 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
| 28 | A hypothetical imperative tells me that , as a rational being , I must do such and such if I desire to obtain a certain upshot , because it is the essential means to that upshot , and he who wills the end must will the means . |
| 29 | if I go to look at something |
| 30 | If I go to buy some fish , for instance , and it 's been irradiated , it wo n't smell . |