Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Expect whoops of absurd self-congratulation if they do . |
| 11 | a breath of fresh air if you like when people do n't know . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is worth remembering that most people cope quite adequately with the practical problems of old age if they have financial security and decent housing , and it is on the provision of these we should concentrate . |
| 16 | People paid weekly , and on weekly budgets ( probably tight ) , virtually have to think of weekly instalments if they want credit , regardless of the costs which are potentially high ( whether directly with trading checks or credit traders , or indirectly through rather higher prices with mail order ) . |
| 17 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 18 | In fact , I think he would pick a player of lesser ability if he knew he would be prepared to give 100 per cent all the time . |
| 19 | If a country 's exchange rate is generally thought to be overvalued , however , then the central bank concerned would face heavy losses of foreign currency if it attempted to maintain the exchange rate at its current value . |
| 20 | The officer agreed to confirm the conversation with the Department of Social Security if he was contacted . ’ |
| 21 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 22 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 23 | The Government could be heading for a damaging backbench revolt of Scottish Tories if it rejects Rosyth . |
| 24 | We can not shut our eyes to the fact that there are groups , very small numerically but extremely cohesive and tenacious , who have infiltrated the unions with the intention of seizing power if they can . |
| 25 | But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started . |
| 26 | The procedures for European political cation need to be brought within a process of democratic accountability if they are to made more effective . |
| 27 | you know it 's not as if we 've got vast amounts of extra luggage if you go on holiday and if so you just have to have the roof rack on . |
| 28 | prepared to pay cost of extra monitoring if it will limit contributions and levies ( response from sole practitioner ) ; |
| 29 | It is offering its 3,000 employees over the age of 50 a voluntary early retirement programme under which they will get full retirement benefits and a year and a half of extra pay if they leave the company and start their own companies in businesses related to IBM . |
| 30 | It follows that if a contractor can demonstrate that the resources available and those intended for use on site would enable the works to be finished early , the contractor would have good grounds for claiming reimbursement of additional costs if he or she was thwarted by the client 's delay . |