Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | All too often this method fails to reach the stowaway pests , or if it does , it fails to kill them . |
| 62 | It will occur all the more if there is residual moisture in the cavity arising from the building process , or if it seeps in either from inside the house or from some external source . |
| 63 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 64 | But if it does n't ease off , or if it gets worse , you must see your doctor . |
| 65 | Or if it had , I had not been told . |
| 66 | If the United Kingdom were geographically more compact , or if it had a much smaller electorate and far fewer MPs to be elected , that might not prove very difficult . |
| 67 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 68 | It would have been different if the trapdoor had been the actual door of the furnace ; or if the coffin had been dragged by visible human operatives ; or if it had gone smoothly , as by the hand of God or the power of irresistible mechanical principles . |
| 69 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 70 | The electric drill had not yet been invented or if it had , it had n't reached Scotland , and Hector bored holes in teeth with a fearsome foot-operated machine . |
| 71 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 72 | Jenna had never known if that last advice had come from her mother or if it had been her father 's order . |
| 73 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 74 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 75 | If walking down streets teeming with non-residents induces mild panic , or if it strikes you as undignified to whizz around a museum in 10 minutes , because entry is part of the combination ticket you have bought from the tourist office , then forget Bruges . |
| 76 | Never take the dog 's food away if you discover that it has misbehaved , or if it refuses to sit . |
| 77 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 78 | Thus , if the government receives tax payments from , or if it sells government debt to , the private sector the proceeds will act to reduce the money market 's cash position . |
| 79 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 80 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 81 | The only thing if it 's a bargain or if it looks nice or you need something new . |
| 82 | The basic rule is that if the second syllable of the verb contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that second syllable is stressed . |
| 83 | Here , if the final syllable contains a short vowel or , it is unstressed ; if the syllable preceding this final syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that middle syllable will be stressed . |
| 84 | If the final syllable of the stem contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that syllable receives the stress . |
| 85 | I think it helps if you can identify whether the the erm depression is just caused by erm the circumstances round about you which can be alleviated by changing them or if it 's caused by eating habits or erm or erm hormones or chemical imbalances in , I 've suffered , I think , from all them as well ! |
| 86 | So when we , you see there 's no good putting anything in there erm or doing anything with it if we 're not going to use it or if it 's got ta come down in another year or two . |
| 87 | He attempted it once at St Mungo 's tomb , in the crypt of the cathedral , to whose depths they had finally descended together ; as a rule their outings were to Glasgow Green , if it was fine , or if it rained , the sitting-room , with Ellen the maid in constant attendance . |
| 88 | The investor could back his or her judgement by either buying the share itself or if it exists , the option on the share . |
| 89 | On the one hand , it would seem that if a claim can be framed as one in contract or tort , or if it concerns a private legal right , it need not be brought under Ord. 53 even if the very ground on which the respondent 's action is alleged to be a tort or breach of contract is that it was illegal in a public law sense . |
| 90 | Or if it stands near a town , the political planners swarm into the house , turn it into a rabbit-warren of black-hatted officers of This and That , and the park becomes a site for some ‘ overspill ’ — a word as beastly as the thing it describes . |