Example sentences of "[adv] if it goes " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only if it goes in and you 've got no angle |
| 2 | Yes , you 'll go to the bottom do n't you , alright , so if it goes to the bottom it 's sinking OK ? |
| 3 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 4 | Especially if it goes smash . |
| 5 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
| 6 | Whenever anyone , Y , is in a position to say , ‘ X is φ ’ on account of what he sees , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it is true to say that X appears to him to be φ , even if it goes against our linguistic practice of saying , ‘ X appears to Y to be φ ’ only if we have a reason not to say , ‘ X is φ ’ . |
| 7 | Progressive ‘ improvement ’ of the kind suggested by the arms-race image does go on , even if it goes on spasmodically and interruptedly ; even if its net rate of progress is too slow to be detected within the lifetime of a man , or even within the timespan of recorded history . |
| 8 | The administration , even if it goes wrong , we can catch up with them later . |
| 9 | At least if it goes wrong with just one A&R person out front , there are plenty more to approach . |
| 10 | But then if it goes on |
| 11 | Now he 's tried to shift the responsibility , and that 's something we 're all good at doing , we like shifting the responsibility , whether it 's in even the very tiny things in life , or whether it 's major issues , we like to shift the responsibility to other people , then if it goes wrong we 're alright , our hands are clean , we we 'll have nothing to do with it . |
| 12 | Yet if it goes hand in hand with a commitment to redistributing power and wealth , literacy becomes one of the tools a government can use to create a new society . |