Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps if he does score the tension will go from his game . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps , thought Juliet , her heart thudding against her ribs , perhaps if he helps me he thinks he might fall in love with me too . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps if he has n't got labels , he does n't know what his clothes are , ’ said the Thing . |
| 5 | Reassure the customer , eg if she says something like ‘ Well , I 'm not sure . |
| 6 | And furthermore , ‘ one will understand nouns and verbs better if one thinks of the role that they adopt in narrative ’ . |
| 7 | He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ . |
| 8 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 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 | He he wo n't be there long if he does come . |
| 11 | Obviously if one does not start from this premise , then the point about the wider range of jobs is no longer relevant ; the belief that degrees are taken in order to get jobs is so much part of the physical science students ' taken-for-granted ideas about education that it remains implicit rather than explicit . |
| 12 | Well , I 'll write a letter obviously if she does n't |
| 13 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 14 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 15 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 16 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 17 | One speaks with linguistic propriety and sincerity when saying ‘ it will rain this afternoon ’ if and only if one believes it will ; the truth of the matter has nothing to do with it . |
| 18 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 19 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 20 | This obviously saves time in group sessions , but only if everyone does it . |
| 21 | Does he agree with Sir Patrick that the United Kingdom can retain its pre-eminent role in Europe in the financial services sector only if it subscribes enthusiastically to the principle of a single currency ? |
| 22 | They quote the comprehensive review by Haggard and Hughes , which states that glue ear probably causes considerable disability only if it results in persistent impaired hearing starting at an early age . |
| 23 | Snake venom is usually clear yellow and is dangerous only if it gets into the bloodstream . |
| 24 | But this will happen only if it gets its act together in the three areas of service provision , education , and research . |
| 25 | For the same reasons , a person who has HIV infection should inform their GP of this only if it becomes relevant for diagnosis or treatment . |
| 26 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 27 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 28 | Hence a social contract can ensure stable cooperation only if it reads ‘ I will cooperate ; I will join in punishing any defection ; I will treat any member who does not join in punishing as a defector . ’ |
| 29 | That , he says , is what the Next Steps is all about : ‘ It will succeed only if it changes the way business is done and accounted for . ’ |
| 30 | It 's only if it goes in and you 've got no angle |