Example sentences of "[vb pp] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday 7 March 1719 ( English style ) the Spanish invasion force , consisting of 5000 men , plus some horses and with food and water for a month , sailed from Cadiz in 25 transports , escorted by only five weakly armed warships which would have been outnumbered and out-gunned if they had encountered either of the British squadrons . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall not only be deeply wounded if you spurn my offerings , I sha n't know what to do with the things . |
| 3 | From this will be deducted the amount that you have earned if you have found another job . |
| 4 | Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines . |
| 5 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 6 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 7 | Dolphins are also harpooned if they approach boats closely enough , and some are also taken incidentally in purse-seines and coastal set-nets . |
| 8 | Damage caused to non-business property can be claimed if it exceeds £275 in value . |
| 9 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 10 | ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams . |
| 11 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 12 | This might well be modified if we made alternative , and possibly more realistic , assumptions . |
| 13 | But the picture can be modified if we insert into it the concept of a primeval Natural Man , who lacks the corrupting appurtenances of modern civilization , and is , on that account , closer to Paradise than ourselves . |
| 14 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 15 | The patient is lifted if he has not recovered his ability to balance , that is , if he tends to topple and fall backwards and towards his hemiplegic side when he tries to sit or stand up without any support . |
| 16 | They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug . |
| 17 | Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't . |
| 18 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 19 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 20 | Its transponder means it can be located if it becomes detached from its lift wire and umbilical . |
| 21 | Or , it might be added if we wish to consider history rather than geography , medieval Europeans represented women as sexually insatiable , while the Victorians represented them as naturally frigid , engaging in sex only as a marital duty . |
| 22 | Different pronunciations of the same word are only added if they cover different portions of the input and therefore provide different word boundary segmentations . |
| 23 | Goat 's milk , which is sometimes used as an alternative to cow 's , is low in folic acid , an important vitamin necessary for proper blood formation , and his vitamin should be added if you use goat 's milk . |
| 24 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 25 | But he 'll be just as overwhelmed if he becomes Manchester United 's first regular centre back from Ulster since Jackie Blanchflower 's time . |
| 26 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 27 | This was the way Therese would have looked if she had never left the stage , never married Friedrich , never had years of misery and failure . |
| 28 | I wonder how he would have responded if you had n't been so angry/polite/upset by the loss of your children ? " |
| 29 | More often than not , each melodic line stands perfectly well by itself , and hearing it thus at least lends something of the sense of familiarity and recognition that the thirteenth-century literati might have enjoyed if they attempted to disentangle aurally the separate strands of the motet . |
| 30 | The plaintiff 's advisers should be sure that the particulars of his special damage take note of all increases in remuneration which the plaintiff would have enjoyed if he had remained in his pre-accident employment . |