Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps if everybody had a stake in the business , they would work better , ’ said Robyn . |
| 2 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 3 | I have nothing against the monarchy , in principle , erm I think that perhaps if we had our own parliament in Scotland and had the Queen as a head of state , as do Australia , Canada , and all the commonwealth countries , that would be fine . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm half inclined to pursue her tomorrow ; perhaps if we had her we would have a few more answers to all this . |
| 5 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 6 | Perhaps if we fed our children on some solid doctrine and not gimmicks they would not be leaving the Church in such numbers . |
| 7 | Perhaps if we win here for two more matches before the Test England would have more cause to worry . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps if we took a good running jump — ’ he began . |
| 9 | Perhaps if we get dwellings as I say , up here . |
| 10 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 11 | Perhaps if we succeed it will be published by SquattervilIe Publishers later this year . |
| 12 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 13 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 14 | Perhaps if we offered to replace Crevecoeur for her … |
| 15 | Perhaps if we look beyond superficial disagreements we may find that today 's men and women of influence share fundamental beliefs and that these beliefs can inspire a common approach to community care . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps if we tried to get things straight in our minds now , it might hurry the enquiry along , ’ Peggy suggested , casually . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps if we give her a little more time ? ’ |
| 18 | Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps if they had got at Sir Oswald it would not have been so jolly , ’ Sir Patrick said acidly . |
| 20 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 21 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 22 | Well if we could send that with the amenities and perhaps if they 've got any , we ca n't say that er , I view this as very much , we 've , we 've got a platform here . |
| 23 | er perhaps if they took that off and subsidised the buses then er it would be a little happier for people travelling to Bicester . |
| 24 | One would predict that where a particular sibling is not willing or able to give support they are unlikely to receive it , except perhaps if they have given assistance in the past . |
| 25 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 26 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 27 | Not so strange , perhaps if one reflects that all moral dramas need villains as well as heroes , and that Leavis above all offered moral drama . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps if you tell me just where you stand ? ’ she suggested shortly . |
| 30 | Perhaps if you remember them you will forget your maladies . ’ |