Example sentences of "if something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a genuine attempt to explore the innate bases of behaviour and their social implications , even if something of the confused Darwinian metaphor remained . |
| 2 | Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case . |
| 3 | I mean the way I 'd look at it , would look at it if something of happened to John , well I still go |
| 4 | If something with an improbability of one dealion was predicted and then happened , we should diagnose a miracle unless , which is more probable , we suspected fraud . |
| 5 | If something outside your control is creating stress , forget it ; there 's nothing you can do about it . |
| 6 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 7 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 8 | Rincewind thought he could see a faint streak in the air , as if something from the mountain had reached out and touched the beast . |
| 9 | There is therefore very much in Engels 's discussion of existing political organization which is still acceptable ; however , recent anthropological work makes it clear that if something like the notion of the gentile constitution is to be retained , the concept would have to be broadened to include a much greater variety of such systems than was , or could have been , envisaged by the founders of Marxism . |
| 10 | If something like that did n't turn up — well , she 'd post it torn , that was all ! |
| 11 | I wonder if something like that would help me win back the hand of my loved one ? … probably not ) . |
| 12 | If something like this was not done , money for training within ACE would dry up and ACE itself could be gone ‘ in five years ’ , claimed the speaker . |
| 13 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 14 | The situation would be very different , however , if something like the no-boundary proposal were correct . |
| 15 | If something like that were going to happen , now would be the time . |
| 16 | If something like that did not happen soon , Robert thought , she might well not have long to live . |
| 17 | What if something like this you know if I give this to Arthur and John and say er they just joined I give them this , this personal development plan , who should it put pressure on should do , yeah cos you should be going up to them and saying well I 'm supposed to have done you know X Y Y and they go ah yeah , and then they go up with these excuses yeah . |
| 18 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 19 | ‘ So , with all my thoughts channelled of necessity elsewhere , ’ he continued , ‘ is it so surprising if something like the position of a needle on a petrol gauge does occasionally escape my attention ? ’ |
| 20 | He said if something like this got out , he said , we 'd be out of business . |
| 21 | I 'd be set for life if something like that happened . |
| 22 | First of all , as I say , we only deal through motor traders anyway , and there is this liability that the motor trade have anyway , and obviously if if something like that has happened it 's going to occur fairly rapidly , but certainly within three months or three thousand miles , and obviously the owner of the vehicle has a redress to the dealer and obviously if there 's one of our policies on it we would probably accept liability on that , although I ca n't say for definite . |
| 23 | But I could only feel the sun on the back of my head and a sad , frightened sensation , as if something inside me was crying . |
| 24 | Hepzibah 's brilliant eyes looked into hers and Carrie felt as if something inside her , some hard , painful lump , were dissolving . |
| 25 | He saw the man 's limbs , tightly clenched as he drove his horse towards the Cutcherry guns , suddenly relax as if something inside him had snapped . |
| 26 | It was as if something in the skinny mare compelled him ; he did not look at any of the others . |
| 27 | as if something within them had sharpened to awareness , or perhaps as if the darkling forest had wakened their strange ancestry and quenched the Human side of them . |