Example sentences of "[det] if [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easier to do this if one can switch course , yet still be working within the framework of broad objectives . |
| 2 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 3 | Luckily , one only notices this if one stays sober oneself , so the solution is as pleasant ( at the time , at least ) as it is obvious . |
| 4 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 5 | My guess is that it was this if anything which provoked the reaction amongst British critics at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival , and the covert but unsuccessful attempt , reportedly led by a British daily newspaper , to have the film taken out of the Festival altogether . |
| 6 | of this er , you know , this if anybody had had any complaints |
| 7 | I 'll say this if anybody wants |
| 8 | ‘ So he does n't mind too much if one goes missing ? ’ |
| 9 | However , the feeling among certain firms on the scheme is that it has not done much if anything to generate business from new clients . |
| 10 | It seems to me that erm Policy E two does not add erm much if anything to Government policy which after all is fairly comprehensive in its dealings with development in the countryside . |
| 11 | That if something suddenly , you know jumps up . |
| 12 | There are of course many cases where there is a necessary either/or in that if something is inherently contradictory , then choice has to be made . |
| 13 | ‘ I know that ! ’ she exclaimed in quick and certain reply , because though everything was such an uproar in her head , she was positive about that if nothing else . |
| 14 | The only erm exception and that 's not even in your price structure , is that if somebody says , Look is there any chance I can have colour , that 's the only place they can have it on the back copy back cover sorry . |
| 15 | Well the point is , for a thing like that if somebody else knows somebody |
| 16 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
| 17 | This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form : that a struggle against severe difficulties in life in unavoidable , is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away , but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships , one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious . |
| 18 | One can do that if one can identify excessive profits , wage levels which depend on restricting access to labour markets and gross inefficiency in the running of government enterprises . |
| 19 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 20 | The last factor is important in that if one is prepared to lose the whole storage , there is no ‘ need ’ for a fire protection system at all . |
| 21 | It said that he had a big problem he did n't want to bother me with , but that if anything happened to him , I was to pass on this envelope to you . |
| 22 | If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over . |
| 23 | You 'll need these if anything goes tragically wrong with your motherboard or hard disk and you have to start again from scratch . |
| 24 | What would happen to us all if everyone were to behave like you ? |
| 25 | There would n't be a queue at all if everyone , even those who fought the hippy wars , did n't have to produce ID to prove they 're over 21 . |
| 26 | Equally obviously this constitutes no reason at all if one does not hold this particular feature in high regard . |
| 27 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 28 | In many ways it was a vicious circle — everything cost so much more if one could n't produce in bulk , but to produce in bulk one needed capital — and plenty of outlets . |
| 29 | Worth more if anything , but I 'm not going to stay around and haggle . |
| 30 | But it was , in real terms , very much less if one allows for rising prices . |