Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 2 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 3 | But Mr Aimetti believes that it is easy enough to get them to work together successfully if they share a common technical language , in accounting , for example . |
| 4 | I felt that I would be able to work more efficiently if I could refer patients in my care to any of the A&E doctors . |
| 5 | A bigger headache , unlikely to go away even if the Gulf threat evaporates , is the weakness of both the yen and the dollar . |
| 6 | Aghast , incredulous , she craned to see more clearly if this was indeed her own mad forebear toying there inside her thought ; and he turned to leer at her . |
| 7 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 8 | Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will have to tread more warily if he is n't to destabilize the housing market which has only touched bottom . |
| 9 | The amphiuma , from the same part of the world , still possesses all four of its limbs but they are so minuscule that you have to look very carefully if you are not to miss them . |
| 10 | Therefore the buyers were entitled to refuse to accept delivery because the sellers had committed a breach of condition ( i.e. of section 13 ) and the buyers were entitled to do so even if they would have suffered no loss by having the tins packed in cases of 24 instead of cases of 30 . |
| 11 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 12 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
| 13 | They are likely to do so only if the perceived benefits exceed the expected costs . |
| 14 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 15 | Some records are worthy of special comment at the beginning of this chapter for they are sources that every family and local historian must learn to use straight away if he is to gain any understanding of the period before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry to rush you out , but we ought to leave straight away if we 're going to get a table . |
| 17 | ALTHOUGH John Kirwan might be in a honeymoon mood at the moment after the whole All Black team turned up at his recent marriage in Italy ( see pages 54 and 65 ) , his good humour is unlikely to last too long if the NZRFU meeting on December 12 and 13th decides to take action against him over his public announcement that he would not make himself available for the All Blacks if Auckland coach John Hart is not Grizz Wyllie 's successor as national coach . |
| 18 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 19 | After all , banks stand to lose far more if new rules are open to widespread abuse . |
| 20 | There were no recognised Departments of Education offering a full initial teaching qualification in any community language ( other than English or Welsh ) at the time of the LITE survey : bilingual school leavers with the determination to promote their language in the British school system could perhaps take a degree by treating their home language as a foreign language where such courses existed , but the available Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) courses could allow them to qualify fully only if they selected a main teaching subject other than their chosen language . |
| 21 | ‘ But before that happened , it would have to get the permission of the panel which would have to consider very carefully if that affected the independence of the audit . ’ |
| 22 | While this inflation lasts , it is possible for these agribusinessmen to live superficially well if their nerves can stand the strain , and their real capital , the soil , survive such prodigal exploitation . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd have been able to live very comfortably if you 'd taken the money I offered , after we separated , ’ he pointed out . |
| 24 | Calm water : Mushroom anemones seem to fare much better if placed in quiet areas of the tank , where the current is n't strong enough to actually move the disc of the polyp . |
| 25 | She 'd be able to think more clearly if she was away from Eastlake , and perhaps come up with the answer as to who was behind these menacing notes . |
| 26 | Well because you 'd have to pay even more if you did it privately . |
| 27 | prepare in advance a set of questions to investigate very thoroughly if the candidate has the expertise and personality necessary for the job ; |
| 28 | A proper explanation has to employ both even if there is room for argument about the weight to be placed on each factor . |
| 29 | If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having |
| 30 | By the late 1980s , the largest organizations were likely to operate most efficiently if they did so at an international level , raising capital internationally and supplying international markets . |