Example sentences of "and if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if everybody starts getting very large discounts and the vendor loses control of the market , not only do the buyers lose all their advantage , but the vendor loses its corporate shirt . |
| 2 | And if everybody does |
| 3 | I mean any of us really could sit down and draw up a list of er of things where , if we , you know , a list of rules if e war for a very small subscription ornot many groups other and if everybody stuck by them , everything would be wonderful |
| 4 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 5 | Are we going to prepared to start that then , I 'll say we started , I make it , I make it dead on twenty five to now , but if we go by that clock , and if everybody goes by that one it 's probably easier , because that 's between twenty five to , so if we make it about eighteen minutes past . |
| 6 | And if something does n't taste like wine , I for one do n't want to waste my time trying to pretend it does . |
| 7 | ‘ That bridge has got concrete cancer , ’ he warned , ‘ and if something is n't done soon there 's going to be a disaster . ’ |
| 8 | The final point to be made is that the local researcher should trust his instinct , and if something ‘ feels ’ wrong it may well actually be wrong , and with diligence can be so proved . |
| 9 | Microsoft also maintains that it is focusing on interoperability and if something concrete eventually does come out of COSE , well that consolidation will just make it easier for Microsoft to interoperate with Unix . |
| 10 | Microsoft also maintains that it is focusing on interoperability and if something concrete eventually does come out of COSE , well , that consolidation will just make it easier for Microsoft to interoperate with Unix . |
| 11 | And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too ! |
| 12 | They have to reveal all , and if something goes wrong how are they to know that all that information will not be handed back to the secret police from whom they are trying to escape by seeking asylum ? |
| 13 | For the club handicap player , the 1 and 2-irons , and if something has to go from the woods I would leave out either the driver or 2-wood . |
| 14 | and if something happens that we feel is important and so one of your form tutors has something that they 're committed to and you wan na bring that in that 's fine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And the other thing erm which er er is good , supposing you 're watching er a programme and there 's a football match on and you 're interested in the , the football er but you do n't really want to keep , you know , switching to find out what the score is , er I 'm talking about teletext as opposed to a programme , you press the update and it w er and if something 's happened , you know , they 've changed and there 's been a score , it 'll come up er er while you 're watching the programme , er it 'll let you know that erm there 's been something happening . |
| 17 | S. H. Patrolling up Prescot Road during the war , if I saw a light on , I used to shout , ‘ Put that bloody light out , ’ and if nobody put the light out , we used to let fly with a brick . |
| 18 | And if nobody 's caught the person who was it is it again . |
| 19 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 20 | Violet next door to me , who I help sometimes rake over her allotment , is eighty-five years old , and if one was to draw a graph of her life from 0–85 , it would be one of unremitting poverty . |
| 21 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 22 | What can be more precious than life itself and if one is youthful there is more of it . ’ |
| 23 | Until Hopkin & Williams published its paper in The Analyst ( 1961 , p464 ) , every laboratory had its own preferred prime standardisation substance , and if one moved from one lab to another one would find that the primary standard — say sodium hydrogen phthalate , borax or sodium carbonate — produced a slightly different standard acid from the one the old laboratory used . |
| 24 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 25 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 26 | Moreover , my main objection to Mr Graham 's analogy was the implication that this ‘ dignity ’ was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature ; and if one did not self-evidently have it , to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful . |
| 27 | When the lava has reached this cherry red temperature , it 's extremely viscous , like sticky treacle , and if one can get near enough to the flow to push a pole into it , quite a lot of material can be collected , and this can be carried away while still very hot and soft . |
| 28 | The quantity of animals killed was quite dramatic , and if one interpolates these figures into the nation |
| 29 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 30 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |