Example sentences of "[subord] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 2 | He 'd be — what — in his fifties now if he 'd lived , a Deputy Secretary , perhaps even a Second Permanent Secretary . |
| 3 | Luke tells you what to do all the time , but quietly , and he never loses his temper , except if he thinks you 're not toying . |
| 4 | So , moving on to another requirement of this law , which states that ‘ When a penalty kick is taken the following shall apply : ( a ) The kick must be taken without undue delay ; ( b ) the kick must be taken at or behind the mark on a line through the mark ; ( c ) The kicker may kick the ball in any direction and he may play the ball again , without any restriction except if he has indicated to the referee that he intends to attempt a kick for goal ’ . |
| 5 | Good call on Kelly although if he keeps playing like he is that would be a conservative estimate , how anyone could ask 1.4 for fat ‘ mars ’ mel is beyond belief though — he has n't kicked a ball in 2 years ! ! ! |
| 6 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 7 | Although if he had done so we doubt whether that committee would have thought it necessary to take any proceedings against the barrister . |
| 8 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 9 | In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information . |
| 10 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 11 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 12 | He was more talked about than if he had been open and obvious . |
| 13 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 14 | On the whole Karelius thought not ; Lapointe 's attentions were rather more extravagant , and less proprietary , than if he had already achieved his goal . |
| 15 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 16 | And after a lucrative summer with Durham this year when he earned more than if he had represented Australia in all Tests and one-day internationals in 1992 , he might be tempted to finish his career in England . |
| 17 | He knew the details better than most of us , but somehow that caused more resentment than if he had left the specifics to us . ’ |
| 18 | Therefore , if there is full ex post settling up , the manager is likely to end up worse off than if he had not deviated from the accepted behaviour . |
| 19 | Erm he is obviously aware that er by not having the vehicle taxed it 's going to cost him considerably more than if he had er taxed the vehicle at the right , correct and proper time . |
| 20 | Erm he is obviously aware that er by not having the vehicle taxed , it 's going to cost him considerably more than if he had er taxed the vehicle at the right , correct and proper time . |
| 21 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 22 | Martha , guarding his jeans while he changed , admired him more for deciding against them than if he had bought them . |
| 23 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 24 | He had just given her a triumph and had got no more reaction than if he had held a door open for her . |
| 25 | The professor will normally be allowed to retain his full stipend during any term of sabbatical leave provided that ( a ) he will spend a considerable part of his leave in advanced study or research ; ( b ) he will give up all teaching and administrative duties in Oxford other than examining and graduate supervision ; ( c ) if after taking account of any loss of normal sources of income and any gain of income from new sources ( less any additional expenses associated with new activities ) , he is in a better financial position than if he had not taken leave , he will forgo from his stipend such sum as will leave him in approximately the same financial state as if he had not taken leave . |
| 26 | Due to the Transfer Regulations , the purchaser is in much the same and in no better a position than if he had bought the shares of the vendor company . |
| 27 | He should go to the public source and get it : or , at any rate , not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source . |
| 28 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 29 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 30 | Or will the people discover the lie and then be less ready to accept and be guided by his rulings than if he had been more open from the start ? |