Example sentences of "[pron] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 2 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 3 | Instead of writing off , there was a better option : a chance of recovery , which if it fails , costs the creditor nothing . |
| 4 | Tell me if it gets too hot on your head . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't care what they ask me if it helps them find the real killer . |
| 6 | Please discuss this with me if it seems confusing ! |
| 7 | ‘ You ask me if it 's been tough . |
| 8 | What use is revenge to me if it means the destruction of what life we have left ? |
| 9 | My Dad would murder me if it happened to me . ’ |
| 10 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |
| 11 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 12 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 13 | What it gets across to the students is that they must deal with women appropriately , hugging them or holding them if it feels natural , rather than standing back and playing doctor . ’ |
| 14 | I said to the farmers we s you should cut grass and you get nitrates into the water and I said to the farmers er er about their slurry throwing erm a muck across the land , we know the problems that causes , I said if we came out with fertilisers which were would you buy them if it costed a bit more . |
| 15 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 16 | The public had a right to be properly informed , which could only be denied them if it appeared absolutely certain that the article would have presented a threat to judicial authority . |
| 17 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 18 | I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals . |
| 19 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 20 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 21 | The corporate planning department either undertakes these projects itself if it has the manpower , or alternatively its members join an investigative committee . |
| 22 | How could the Vendor subsequently defend itself if it has effectively admitted a breach ? |
| 23 | If there is a particular site for which you want to be kept informed of any future development , you can ask the planning department to tell you if it receives an application affecting it . |
| 24 | ‘ If that were the only stumbling-block , I 'd put all my weight behind you if it came to a showdown with the pater . |
| 25 | It 'll tell you if it does n't . |
| 26 | I 'll keep it for you if it does . |
| 27 | come up and insult you if it does n't bother you , you wo n't say a thing , but if it does bother you 'll come back and re say something back . |
| 28 | If the medicine you are taking is not listed there , ask to speak to the pharmacist at the shop where you buy it — he or she will be able to tell you if it contains any of these drugs . |
| 29 | ‘ It hisses at you if it sees you , and Trudy says she saw it flying over the lane one night on the witch 's broomstick . ’ |
| 30 | Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production . |