Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 2 | Machines that are considered ‘ out of the way ’ in a corner of the room will be relatively more unsociable if they block off a doorway or interrupt television viewing . |
| 3 | It is no good choosing , say , a Cherokee 140 if you want to get into solo aerobatics , or a Pitts if you want to go touring with the wife and family . |
| 4 | Can I suggest as , as we , we start the document , that we have a copy of the procedure we 're discussing open , because I think most of us in debate and discussion proper if we made our own procedures , things that we hear about . |
| 5 | And then some NATO aircraft too , of course , we 're in Great Britain , so it would n't be fitting and proper if we did not have any of the aircraft from the Royal Air force . |
| 6 | Some counsellors suggest that patients try " controlled drinking " and diagnose themselves as being alcoholic if they fail . |
| 7 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 8 | Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ? |
| 9 | He argued , quoting The Green Book , that all children should have the opportunity of education , and he thought it most improbable these girls would have this if they had to travel to Zawiya . |
| 10 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 11 | it 's no good saying to someone come on you should know this if they do n't it does n't help does it . |
| 12 | However , they will only do this if they have a chance of hitting an adventurer — if a spell such as Zone of Sanctuary is in operation , for instance , the Skeletons will bide their time . |
| 13 | We can easily understand this if we assume that dialect A is ‘ standard SBE ’ , and dialect B is ‘ Cockney ’ . |
| 14 | It would help us to implement this if we knew our concerns were going to be addressed with research ’ . |
| 15 | We can see this if we take an example . |
| 16 | So you could try it like this if we had twenty four we could see what happens if you make them into twos ? |
| 17 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 18 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 19 | We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one . |
| 20 | We can see this if we consider what would have happened if the only problems animals had had to face had been those posed by the weather and other aspects of the nonliving environment . |
| 21 | Luckily , one only notices this if one stays sober oneself , so the solution is as pleasant ( at the time , at least ) as it is obvious . |
| 22 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 23 | The local fieldworker needs to give serious consideration to this if he attempts to explain the pre-medieval settlements in his area . |
| 24 | This door has a weak spell cast on it ; an adventurer with Magical Awareness will be able to spot this if he makes a successful Int test . |
| 25 | For the examiner may not agree that the fact is implied in the question ; but he will not mind about this if he sees that your assumption is not the result of carelessness but is your considered interpretation of the question . |
| 26 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 27 | Yeah but you just put this if it says joystick er |
| 28 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 29 | I would n't be doing this if it had n't happened . |
| 30 | You can protest about this if it becomes a burden , but the time expended in doing so is probably inefficiently spent . |