Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 32 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 33 | This means either that the utterance of [ 14a ] was not a case of genuine communication or that it did in fact achieve relevance . |
| 34 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 35 | Where if you go with me , then you can put it in the car . |
| 36 | My daughter , Dinah Asshe , is not married to Mr Paul Arkwright of London University College , and will not be so with my permission , or until she comes of age . |
| 37 | If everybody fills a particular item in round about the middle or if everybody agrees with it or everybody disagrees with it , it 's not telling you very much as it were , according to the usual of attitude scale construction anyway . |
| 38 | You would also need to study the lists to see if there is anything conditioning the sounds , i.e. if they are in complementary distribution and belonging to the same phoneme , or if they contrast in some way , thus constituting different phonemes . |
| 39 | Later in the will he provides that if no children are born or if they die within puberty then Mucius and Maevius are to be heirs . |
| 40 | Or if they ask for Brinkley , people can be guided there . |
| 41 | I do not know if they talked or if they went to bed together on that first night . |
| 42 | Or if they go to the toilet and take just a little longer . |
| 43 | As equipment becomes more expensive and more teachers are taking private classes it would be greatly appreciated if teachers would let Jean Parmiter know if they have any equipment for sale or to loan or if they know of any evening institute which might be wishing to dispose of some . |
| 44 | Former tenants of the flats have been moved to other council accommodation either is Haslemere , or if they preferred to other parts of Waverley . |
| 45 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 46 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 47 | He has no method , or if we insist on the word , a different method for each child . |
| 48 | This is something which we can only discuss vaguely in terms of chance and probabilities , or if we believe in divine determinism dismiss fatalistically as God 's will . |
| 49 | But , she said to herself , if Alida were not here , or if anything happened to the daughter before the mother , then Eleanor would have to go away . |
| 50 | That 's right , if the sho if the top part of the shoe went that was the only you got a new pair or if or if it burst around the sole and the seam . |
| 51 | If there is not , or if it went against him , what would his next move be ? |
| 52 | ( d ) Action on receipt of replies First peruse each reply carefully , consider its significance ; and if the reply is benign , pass on to the next , but before you do , tick the answer in the margin , or if it calls for clarification or action , put a cross in the margin , so that when you have considered every reply , you can go over them all comprehensively , and take whatever action is called for . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 60 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |