Example sentences of "if i [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 2 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 3 | If I am forced because of this to return — what then ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country . |
| 5 | But if I am to believe that , when the Minister replies to the debate she will have to commit herself to two very simple propositions : first , that the Government will institute a full review of student financial support as a matter of urgency ; secondly , that they will commit themselves to restoring to all students the housing benefit and income support that the Government have taken away from them . |
| 6 | If I were diagnosed as having an incurable disease I would go home and be looked after by my dad , who 's a doctor . |
| 7 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 8 | your bargaining power is based on the losses I would suffer if I were to agree or disagree with your proposals . |
| 9 | If I were experienced and sophisticated like Marise , he might get involved with me anyway , because he 'd know that I understood the game and would n't get hurt . |
| 10 | as if I were hammering and hammering |
| 11 | He looked at me uncertainly , fondling and patting his hair as usual , unsure if I was joking or not . |
| 12 | Remember the boys are at home and if I was to go and ask Martin he would immediately say yes . ’ |
| 13 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 14 | I felt as if I was screaming and not making any noise . |
| 15 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 16 | Well I think , Bill , if I was to try and sum it up I 'd say that the Social Services settlement was the best of a bad job . |
| 17 | I just felt as if I was staring and staring at you and that at any minute you 'd disappear , like the ghost in Hamlet . |
| 18 | No I was saying if I was saying if I was going to spend that on raffle tickets , it would n't matter if I was getting |
| 19 | He managed somehow to get under my skin , tangle me up inside so that I did n't know if I was coming or going . |
| 20 | He , he 's trying to make , he , he 's making him , you aggressive is n't he and I would say that he 's just thinking it 's low if I 'm going and this guy because , you know |
| 21 | I will ask her if I 'm babysitting as well on Saturday . |
| 22 | And if I 'm practising and it sounds good it 'll work for me too . |
| 23 | ‘ If I 'm crying because someone 's been nasty to me , he 'll want to rush away and knock their block off ’ , said one woman , ‘ for anything else he 'll just sit there and look miserable and uncomfortable until I feel I 'm supposed to comfort him ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |