Example sentences of "if [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |
| 2 | BD , BD , would score if only let |
| 3 | If only bluff King Hal had been around yesterday , I think the tribunal might have co-opted him to pronounce the sentence they 'd love to carry out on Lamb : ‘ Off with his head ! ’ . |
| 4 | If only Verdun could hold out another two or three days , it would be safe , Pétain thought . |
| 5 | A weak labour market offers Mr Keating a chance for reform , if only Labor and the unions would let him . |
| 6 | Important land transactions probably often took place at meetings , and charter witness lists are valuable evidence on the king 's major followers , and , if enough survive , the careers of bishops , abbots , ealdormen and thegns can to some extent be reconstructed from them . |
| 7 | If so dress him in white and use sunshine soapflakes to get the dirt out . ) |
| 8 | If so let them carry on . |
| 9 | If so get in touch with Steve Hack on Farnham 725224 every Monday and we 'll give you some free publicity . |
| 10 | If so write and tell me all about it — I 'll be sending a bottle of Moet & Chandon Champagne for the best letter ! |
| 11 | If so omit stages 2 and 3 , except for adding a similar amount of gravel to get the sloping effect . |
| 12 | If so make sure your telephone call is an organized one ( see p. 18 above ) . |
| 13 | If so contact him at 23 , Manor House Farm , Flockton , near Wakefield , West Yorks . |
| 14 | Are you part of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme and if so do you display stickers attesting to the fact ? |
| 15 | Hopefully they 're are the same as the ring , if not tick the other one . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , as Ian Harper reveals in Personal Finance , that too places unconscionable constraints on those companies that wish to grow and more may be forced to follow Scottish Equitable 's example of doing a deal with a big external investor , if not go for wholesale demutualisation . |
| 17 | So the total for the week , including practice days , is expected to equal if not surpass the 1989 figures . |
| 18 | So the total for the week , including practice days , is expected to equal if not surpass the 1989 figures . |
| 19 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 20 | The solution , again , focuses upon re-educating teachers , to reduce if not remove racial and sex stereotypes . |
| 21 | Ritualized obedience , and the constable 's streetwise judgement , could in any case often limit if not prevent street conflict . |
| 22 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers . |
| 23 | In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |
| 24 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) . |
| 25 | Now , though , the group is seeking to , if not make a return to its fame of the 70s , then at least heighten public awareness of its work . |
| 26 | There is no hint here of structural explanations , still less of critical analyses of alternative political and economic strategies which might be held to ameliorate , if not cure absolutely , unemployment . |
| 27 | It is not the son of a poor carpenter whom the usurper fears , but the Messiah , the rightful anointed king — a figure who , by virtue of some inherent genealogical qualification , might rally popular support and , if not depose him , at least compromise him on specifically political grounds . |
| 28 | The aim is always to guide students to understanding and thereby to help them minimize , if not avoid , errors . |
| 29 | For Kirton , the assistant-coach position may fall slightly below his highest expectations , but will be a satisfactory position from which he can expand , if not introduce , his sometimes exotic ideas about back play . |
| 30 | The private sector was to be harnessed to stabilize — if not increase — local employment . |