Example sentences of "[conj] if [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We can bring you back at home or if they insist that you go back in an ambulance , you may , they may not put you back home you know , have you thought of that ?
2 If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug .
3 If Af = B we frequently say that f is onto B. If we do n't know ( or if we know but do n't particularly care ) that f is onto B , we often just say that f maps A into B. ( Thus " into " is just another word for " to " .
4 What do we usually do in times of stress , or if we feel that we need cheering up ?
5 In saying this , however , Blackie ignored the evidence of his colleagues in Scotland who unequivocally denied any protection , adding , ‘ If we have a criticism of a teacher or if we feel that a teacher is weak in some respects … the matter would be discussed very frankly with the teacher in the first place ’ .
6 Or if we find that a grand-daughter is assisting her own mother in caring for an elderly parent , whom is the granddaughter helping ?
7 He told her : ‘ I dare n't be otherwise — because if I were ever in a compromising situation , if the police raided or if someone kissed and told I 'd be up the creek . ’
8 It also has a residual power to make an appointment if the child has sufficient understanding to give instructions himself and wishes to do so or if it considers that it would be in the child 's best interests to be legally represented ( s41(3) ( 4 ) ( a ) and ( b ) ) .
9 Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents .
10 And the barriers drop , so if you try and go through when the lights are flashing or if you try and go round the barriers the chances are the train 's getting nearer and nearer and could hit you .
11 If you take an instant dislike to a particular hypnotherapist , or if you feel that you are unlikely to be able to establish any rapport with him , then he is not the one for you and any treatment would be unlikely to succeed .
12 Emergency contraception sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used as a regular method of family planning .
13 Emergency contraception ( sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ ) may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used up to 72 hours after intercourse and an IUD method that may be fitted within five days .
14 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 .
15 But er I mean we We 've spoken about it before , on the platform , and things like that , that I mean everybody knows the score that if something happens if you 're if you 're sleeping you 've not got a an excellent chance , put it like that , I mean you er I mean nobody ever expected anything like what happened on piper to happen any on that scale .
16 They learned that if they blew and sucked a little at all baits before they accepted them , the safe ones moved easily and the dangerous ones did not .
17 Wrote to Lloyds Bank telling them , that if they try and keep
18 She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past .
19 He wrote that if they agreed that :
20 Through his Arab interpreter he told them that if they did as they were told no harm need come to them .
21 It was a night of frustration for Wales , who knew beforehand that if they won and then registered wins in their final two home games against Cyprus and Romania , they would qualify .
22 there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it .
23 All you need to know about Maxwell is that if everybody behaved as he did , the economy would soon collapse in an explosion of selfish parasitism .
24 But she had read that if you turn and f ace the nameless fear , just once , you never have that dream again .
25 It 's the classic chicken and the egg problem , that if you try and identify something starting one area , and using that as a sort of causal factor for another area of behaviour , I 'm not sure whether , in the majority of cases , you can satisfactorily identify one as being the cause and the other being the result of that causal factor .
26 You are then guaranteed that if you register and receive the full packaged software it will work on your machine and with your printer .
27 We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading .
28 No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke .
29 He was going on and on , and erm , I said , well , I 'm sure that if you go and pick it up , it will be working .
30 For he had stumbled across — or it had been revealed to him — that if you act as you deeply want to act and if that , sublimely , coincides with what you aim for , then nothing is simpler , nothing is more dynamic , nothing is happier .
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