Example sentences of "[conj] if [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it .
2 but where if they sold little packets of sweets
3 And one where if we 're not prepared to learn from the Europeans , whether it 's integrated transport in cities or whether it 's intercity links or wherever , we 're going to be in a great deal of trouble .
4 We build at getting better things , where if we do n't actually watch it , we build at getting worse at things .
5 If we had started on week one , where if we 'd had complete programme information up to week thirteen when , that 'd be more complete would n't it ?
6 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
7 You can live something like it in a commuter suburb , where if you have a blazing row with your wife , neighbours will only get to know about it if she tells them .
8 But it , it was so varied that you went through the , the cities and the highland scenes where they went through the highlands and in the country and then you ended up with coming on to a crossroads in a modern , a futuristic city , where if you look down you , the pavements were elevated and you walked down to where all the models of General Motors were displayed as if they were crossing roads .
9 Yes , it 's the , the failure to keep bovine identification breed re records by two or three far farmers and it 's one of those things where if you 've got a lot of animals and you have n't marked them , then you get a lot of incorrects , and that 's why we 've got to go through it .
10 Where if you 're fairly new , you do n't know them people , you might be thinking you have to have a timed appointment to go in with , where you 'll save a lot of time by just building up , and working on your existing like that .
11 And er there 's another little room above there where if you move those boards there , that is a kind of trap-door .
12 well it 's one of these things where if you sort of have a
13 no , if , what , where if you have n't got any gold ?
14 two sixty , if you 've got a bad phone it used to drag the paging down for all others , where if you 've got paint in the socket
15 The word workfare is a term we have imported from America , the America , where if you are unemployed , homeless , you 're a scrounger , a drop-out a no-good , something less than human .
16 Where if you go with me , then you can put it in the car .
17 We deliberately went for a position of responsibility and moderation in this argument , where if I may say so , some other people have n't put the same constraints on themselves .
18 However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard .
19 That 's right , I mean you , you looked in , in , in , if you had a fire out in the sticks somewhere , you 'd look to see where the telephone was , where if there were any , and then knock on somebody 's door perhaps , at two o'clock in the morning and say can I use your telephone , and they were n't very happy sometimes I can tell you .
20 You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings .
21 The provost had confronted the man and had issued a warning , telling him that ‘ the process before the Judiciary at the Croun 's Instance was still hanging over his head & if he transgressed those who assisted to bring him of[f] may also get the affair moved againe , at least for £30 of expenses ’ .
22 In fact I wrote a song yesterday & if you are good you shall have it , supposing you care .
23 Yes she were having a look at a lamb , seeing if it were alright for the thing and er we decided that they would n't be alright because where her shed thing is , it 's too far away from house .
24 Great cos I I was like sitting there blowing down it seeing if it 'd work and it would sort of stop working completely .
25 but people chuck all this stuff at you and you , Ooh what 's going on ? now if you 're not very very sure of what you 're working with in the first place
26 He 'd be — what — in his fifties now if he 'd lived , a Deputy Secretary , perhaps even a Second Permanent Secretary .
27 ‘ Well , why not leave the keys with us and then if you ca n't get away , you can perhaps come back here — or if everything goes OK we 'll use it as a playroom or something . ’
28 When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes .
29 Or if one prefers psychology , the more individual , personal approach , one may muse on the notions of B. F. Skinner , Hans Eysenck , Arthur Jensen , William Shockley , and J. B. Watson .
30 And every proof or dis-proof can be readily evaded , if one questions the truth of its premisses , or the validity of its type of inference , or if one finds new senses in which its terms may be used .
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