Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If … if everyone had their rights I should be legal mistress of this place now . |
| 32 | If everyone had one of these , the crime rate would drop by about fifty per cent . ’ |
| 33 | Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , UK manufacturer of intelligent input/output controllers has pulled out of ACE : marketing director , Ian Cummins says ‘ ACE was initially a good idea if everyone had worked together . |
| 34 | If everyone had no confidence , no one kindly , passionate-feeling human person would ever be approached by any other kindly , passionate-feeling human person . |
| 35 | In if everyone had a meter , |
| 36 | If we further take account of intergenerational differences , then the coefficient of variation over all generations , denoted by , is the weighted sum of individual plus the coefficient of variation obtained if everyone had the mean income of their generation ( the ‘ between-generations ’ inequality ) . |
| 37 | If everyone had identical tastes and endowments , then many public finance questions would lose their significance , and this is particularly true of the behaviour of the state . |
| 38 | If everyone had the same preferences as individual i , the same pre-tax income Y i , and the same perception of the tax required , then there would be no disagreement over the level of public spending . |
| 39 | If everyone had waited until they could promise their children a safe life , the human race would be extinct . ’ |
| 40 | It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the centre-right party 's expert on political marketing . |
| 41 | Of course , if everyone knew their partners inside out , there 's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth . |
| 42 | ‘ The way I see it , if everyone knew what they wanted , the TV would never have been invented , the car would never have been invented , the plane would never have been invented or ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ would never have come out because no one liked ‘ Led Zeppelin I ’ . |
| 43 | To see clearly that the selection of the parameter γ 2 affects the distribution of output around its natural level , we follow Barro 's procedure and first derive what real output in a typical market would be if there were full current information ; that is , if everyone knew the current value of all the shocks affecting the economy . |
| 44 | ‘ You remember you said it was easy to get a book published if everyone knew your name ? ’ |
| 45 | It is interesting to wonder whether , if everyone cycled , even these would be necessary ! |
| 46 | They reckon if everyone drove round this it up . |
| 47 | ‘ It does if everyone hates him , does n't it ? ’ |
| 48 | Many oranges , apparently sound , are thrown out on the quay and if everyone taking one or two of these oranges was arrested for theft , one Police Court would not be enough to deal with the cases … |
| 49 | ‘ It will if everyone rallies round , ’ says Bob Busby . |
| 50 | You can not cool out if everyone cools with you . |
| 51 | He argues that dreams can not be regarded as a neurotic symptom if everyone dreams — unless everyone is neurotic . |
| 52 | For example , one British study ( Brody and Tarling , 1990 ) concluded that we could have a substantial effect on the crime rate if everyone convicted of an indictable offence received a mandatory 19-month prison sentence . |
| 53 | They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year . |
| 54 | ‘ If everyone sang in English more people would enjoy the music and want to watch . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ 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 . |
| 56 | ‘ If everyone spoke the truth we might avoid future dangers . ’ |
| 57 | Pro and anti-bolters must now show less fanaticism in their activities and this policy will only work if everyone makes an effort to operate within the guidelines . |
| 58 | If everyone stands on tiptoe , no one sees better . |
| 59 | The language of Gerardo 's pleadings is too forthright as well and more than a little familiar : ‘ Imagine what would happen if everyone acted like you did ’ ; ‘ You 're still a prisoner , locked up with them , in that basement . |
| 60 | But what would happen if everyone acted that way ? |