Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps if everybody had a stake in the business , they would work better , ’ said Robyn . |
| 2 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 3 | they are now , perhaps if you had a word with them |
| 4 | Perhaps if you had a child … ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps if you hear a thing told often enough , it makes it true . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps if I found a partner … |
| 7 | Perhaps if someone invented a time machine ( almost certainly a scientific impossibility ) archaeologists would have the satisfaction of being able to prove and disprove each other 's theories ; failing that , we have to accept that the science of the distant past is a matter of informed deduction and , let us face it , guesswork . |
| 8 | This may be difficult at home but you will work better if you have a desk in a room where you can do uninterrupted work . |
| 9 | You must not worry too much if she seems a bit depressed during the first few months , instead of being a ‘ sweet and grateful granny ’ . |
| 10 | Over and above that , obviously this is where the advantage to the policy holder comes in because obviously if they get a gearbox problem that 's going to cost , say , a hundred and eighty pounds in six months time , they 're not going to be able to go back to the dealer and say look I want you to put this right for me , because obviously it is outside the statutory guarantee . |
| 11 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 12 | Moreover , landlords were restrained by the knowledge that they would attract good tenants only if they had a reputation for fairness . |
| 13 | Magazines are allowed to show a man 's naughty bits only if they resemble a map of the Mull of Kintyre , Scots-born Pauline explained . |
| 14 | We can deal with mass unemployment on this scale only if we have a Government who are determined to do so , and we can deal with it better if , internationally , Governments are determined to do so . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | The growth of ethology can continue only if we find a way of talking about human experience that opens the whole range of the activities of men and women to inspection . |
| 17 | The problem was that clubs would let you play only if you had a club handicap , but you could n't get a handicap without playing . |
| 18 | They had in fact stationed themselves in front of the doors which were the kind which open only if you press a button either from outside or inside . |
| 19 | Also , there are instructors with the Minister of Industry of Bangkok who teach machine knitting , but they teach only if you have a group of ten or more . |
| 20 | A symbolic arrow can function only if it has a target , explicit or implicit . |
| 21 | An extra risk item now requires to be specified only if it exceeds a value of £2,000 or 10% of the sum insured on contents which ever is the less . |
| 22 | Vaginal penetration ( screwing , fucking or bonking ) , but only if he has a condom on his penis . |
| 23 | Anal penetration ( going up the arse ) but only if he has a condom on his penis . |
| 24 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 25 | Right so if we had a test statistic greater than one point seven zero on a T ratio . |
| 26 | Right , so if we had a test statistic greater than three point eight it would reject our null hypothesis . |
| 27 | And they 'd be all the same size so if we had a piece like those two stuck together |
| 28 | So if we make a list of what we 've got when you have a video night , if you or , or somebody else has the video list , you can say , well if you bring them back |
| 29 | So if we find a sex difference in disfluency , we are still left with a problem of interpretation . |
| 30 | So if we add a half |