Example sentences of "[vb pp] [is] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 2 | and the only thing that they 've done is if you kiss somebody , kissing someone whatever you know , erm or someone 's dirty and that is the only thing they can put it down |
| 3 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 4 | They often get left on the shelf , and the only way they can be sold is if the price is reduced . |
| 5 | The only way the ground for the deportation decision can be challenged is if the refugee returns to the country from which he fled and launches an appeal there . |
| 6 | The 52-year-old former Yorkshire and England opener wanted to join in , but the only way he will be involved is if one of the players requests him . |
| 7 | The problem here is , if , if , if , if , the , what 's , what 's happened is if , if that , if anything gets bought there in the practice , that then is taken out of our remunerations , so if we spend six hundred pounds on the stuff in the prac in , in , in the reception area |
| 8 | That the only chance of me ever being spotted is if I catch measles . |
| 9 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |