Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 2 | Machines that are considered ‘ out of the way ’ in a corner of the room will be relatively more unsociable if they block off a doorway or interrupt television viewing . |
| 3 | It is no good choosing , say , a Cherokee 140 if you want to get into solo aerobatics , or a Pitts if you want to go touring with the wife and family . |
| 4 | Can I suggest as , as we , we start the document , that we have a copy of the procedure we 're discussing open , because I think most of us in debate and discussion proper if we made our own procedures , things that we hear about . |
| 5 | And then some NATO aircraft too , of course , we 're in Great Britain , so it would n't be fitting and proper if we did not have any of the aircraft from the Royal Air force . |
| 6 | It 'd be perfectly proper if there were new local government offices to be built for them to be located on an I five site . |
| 7 | Some counsellors suggest that patients try " controlled drinking " and diagnose themselves as being alcoholic if they fail . |
| 8 | That you can not be alcoholic if you still have a family , a house , a car , a job and money in the bank . |
| 9 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 10 | He argued , quoting The Green Book , that all children should have the opportunity of education , and he thought it most improbable these girls would have this if they had to travel to Zawiya . |
| 11 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 12 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 13 | Fuel-burning appliances need an adequate supply of air to work efficiently and safely , so unless they have balanced flues , the rooms where they are sited must contain provision for this if they are well sealed against natural draughts . |
| 14 | They will never do this if they are running around loose . |
| 15 | However , they will only do this if they have a chance of hitting an adventurer — if a spell such as Zone of Sanctuary is in operation , for instance , the Skeletons will bide their time . |
| 16 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 17 | it 's no good saying to someone come on you should know this if they do n't it does n't help does it . |
| 18 | Why go through all this if they already have the answers ? |
| 19 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 20 | Obviously they will be much more willing to do this if they already have plenty of spare liquidity . |
| 21 | Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ? |
| 22 | We must continue to do this if we are to safeguard its future reputation . |
| 23 | We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one . |
| 24 | We can see this if we take an example . |
| 25 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 26 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 27 | We can easily understand this if we assume that dialect A is ‘ standard SBE ’ , and dialect B is ‘ Cockney ’ . |
| 28 | So you could try it like this if we had twenty four we could see what happens if you make them into twos ? |
| 29 | We can see this if we consider what would have happened if the only problems animals had had to face had been those posed by the weather and other aspects of the nonliving environment . |
| 30 | Heaven forbid I would n't talk to you like this if we were on the air would I ? |