Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be invited to write for professional journals if you have a book published related to your career area . |
| 2 | Thus an expert may need to carry out his own independent investigations if the parties have not submitted adequate material on which to make a decision : and the expert might be liable for professional negligence if he did not do so . |
| 3 | John Redwood , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , saw no mileage in his current job as local-government minister if it meant non-stop council-bashing . |
| 4 | There would be no need for a choice between economic objectives if they were all uniformly related to one controllable variable . |
| 5 | If they do drive over the legal limit , it is usually because they are left with no other way to get home and they worry about parental reaction if they are late getting home . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he has any plans to increase the amount of earnings disregard before benefits for lone parents are affected . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will revise the state earnings-related pension scheme to make higher pensions available for those people made redundant in their late 50s who are unlikely to obtain another job . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement about pension levels . |
| 9 | ‘ The old inter-club rivalries and jealousies have undoubtedly been banished this season and it will be good for the tournament and for English rugby if we can win it , ’ said coach Keith Richardson . |
| 10 | ‘ I would turn down ads for foreign foods if I was offered them , ’ added the Scottish-born actor , who owns a Jaguar and a Rolls Royce . |
| 11 | We can not say we are concerned about social problems if we are not concerned about abortion . ’ |
| 12 | James Cropper went further in hoping for , but failing to do anything about , improving the quality of free-labour East Indian sugar as an alternative for British consumers if it was allowed to compete on fairer terms with West India produce . |
| 13 | They 'll be used to provide emergency treatment for British troops if they 're injured while on convoy protection duty in Bosnia . |
| 14 | Similarly , investors tend not to deal with a new house if they are doubtful about its tenacity — and skilled market staff will not join a firm even for high salaries if they are unsure that it will remain in the market . |
| 15 | Regional managers for northern , central and southern Europe have also been appointed to ensure that managers look across national boundaries for specialised services if they are needed , giving customers access to a broader scope of expertise . |
| 16 | " No one in the Labour Party " , wrote Cripps , " wants to encourage the forming of any sort of combined Opposition if it can be avoided — that is to say , if the Labour Party can show itself strong enough to give the lead to the anti-National Government forces and to be a real and effective Opposition to that Government " . |
| 17 | He had normal hearing all his life and would have been unaware of deaf people if he had not been " adopted " as a young orphan by the Rev J Jennings , a deaf mute minister and founder of the South London Gospel Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 18 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |
| 19 | As Miller puts it : ‘ Education is a source of economic growth if it is anti-traditional to the extent that it liberates and stimulates as well as informs the individual and teaches him how and why to make demands upon himself . ’ |
| 20 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
| 21 | I do not like the idea of complete fusion if it can be avoided , but I had come to think , as you had also , that it was really inevitable if the Coalition were to continue . |
| 22 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 23 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 24 | At the same time , however , Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain were threatening to exercise their veto on the question of European union if it meant increasing their own contributions to the EC budget . |
| 25 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 26 | Expect whoops of absurd self-congratulation if they do . |
| 27 | a breath of fresh air if you like when people do n't know . |
| 28 | Before I call the proposer and the seconder of the motion on the Loyal Address , it may be for the convenience of hon. Members if I inform the House that the proposed subjects for debate for the rest of this week and for next week are as follows : |
| 29 | You can begin to find this out by using an ANNALS , which functions as a short-cut summary of historical facts if you do not know much about a text 's historical background . |
| 30 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |