Example sentences of "[coord] if [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If both NL and LD , or if both EX and CS , are switched on ; only NL and EX respectively will show on the screen : both pairs of codes appear in the same places and NL and EX take priority if both are on .
2 The district judge may extend the period of four months for a further period or periods each not exceeding four months , if reasonable efforts have been made to serve the summons and provided that the application has been made before the preceding 12 months expire , or if later , in the court 's discretion ( Ord 7 , r 20(2) ) .
3 And I think where where youngsters were away from school that was a greater reason for them to be at home , to look after home , whilst their parents were ill or if probably one of the other kids were off ill or something like that you see , because in most families there was what three and four children .
4 But if the former move out of residential care for four weeks and the latter for 13 weeks , or if either go into hospital for 52 weeks , the preserved rights are lost .
5 Or if not then perhaps later as his mother — always self-conscious as to the difference between herself and her more Westernised sisters-in-law gave vent to the feelings of inadequacy they unconsciously inspired ?
6 The traditions of their monarchy demanded something grander , or if not that something extraordinary like the saintliness of Louis IX .
7 Normally at least one parent remained in the home , or if not , close by ; and in many cases aunts of the parents ' generation were involved in caring .
8 Or if not actually in it , well on the way to it .
9 or if not cared for , remembered .
10 So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond .
11 ‘ You might have a sales order processing system sitting on one computer ; once an order has been processed , it sends a message to an inventory system on another computer , which checks whether the item is there , and if it is initiates the shipment , or if not may request the supply of the item by sending a message to a third system .
12 The darkness made this a more hazardous stretch than that undertaken by Dean Miller , or if not more hazardous , more frightening .
13 If the votes are 50% , 30% and 20% for parties A , B and C respectively , then PR means that Party A must have 50% of the seats , Party B 30% and Party C 20% — or if not exactly those percentages , then percentages as close to them as is possible within the constraints of whatever system is being used .
14 In 4.2 I gave reasons for doubting the existence or if not the existence the usefulness of infallible beliefs .
15 In this chapter I shall give reasons for rejecting this approach , or if not for rejecting it then for supposing that the questions it raises can never be answered and so that it leads directly to scepticism .
16 And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice .
17 Or if not tonight , certainly tomorrow .
18 I hope you will be able to arrange for the removal and disposal of this vehicle or if not perhaps you would let me know who can .
19 I 'd give Rocky a chance on the right or if not move Kelly forward with Bardsley in behind ( kind of like the way Jack Charlton plays Terry Phelan behind Steve Staunton ) and probably go for a new left winger to help Dorigo ( sorry Mrs. Dorigo Anthony ) .
20 A good root would preferably comprise a conveyance on sale , or if not , a legal mortgage .
21 If despite your gloomy forebodings your client nevertheless instructs you to proceed , confirm your advice and his instructions by letter , and advise your client 's mortgagees , if you act for them , or if not , advise their solicitors of the provision and do n't agree the draft until you know that the term is acceptable to them , too .
22 Or if not a policeman , then a doctor . ’
23 Or if not the mother , then the stepfather ? ’
24 Or if not worrying them , then alerting them .
25 You then face it with another wardrobe , or if not a wardrobe you 'll face it with something like a chest of drawers and the and put a c er er a wrapper over that and then upside down on top of that th there would be a dressing table , and they would face in .
26 Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made .
27 Some alien imports are quickly acclimatised into artistic traditions that last for decades or centuries , and nobody bothers if most of Shakespeare 's sources were continental , if porcelain came to England from China by way of Saxony , or if almost all the literary kinds the English tradition has excelled in , excepting only the detective story , have been borrowed from abroad .
28 Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day .
29 ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ?
30 He wondered if Alexei was angry because he had been beaten again , or if maybe he was beginning to realise that there was no way , short of an accident , that he was ever going to be allowed to win .
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