Example sentences of "and if [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 2 | The WWF spokesman said that canoeing was not a problem but until the law is changed ‘ a canoe must be treated in the same way as the QE2 ’ and if one were permitted to use the Derwent then so would the other . |
| 3 | Violet next door to me , who I help sometimes rake over her allotment , is eighty-five years old , and if one was to draw a graph of her life from 0–85 , it would be one of unremitting poverty . |
| 4 | All those administrations had subscribed to the " domino theory " : the non-Communist countries were seen as a set of dominoes , and if one was knocked over ( i.e. went Communist ) then the others would also tumble . |
| 5 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 6 | He reckoned his enemies would be concealed in the forest , and if they were mustering in any strength at all , would need to use the comparatively level and open banks for their attack . |
| 7 | There are two reasons for this : first , the collection of international modern art and the British historical collections are out of proportion with one another , and if they were separated , that problem would disappear . |
| 8 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 9 | And if they were given the opportunity or or and the impetus to start to do something positive , I 'm sure they would take that up . |
| 10 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 11 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 12 | Most of them ca n't be played because they 're so fragile and if they were restored they would n't make their original sound . |
| 13 | The queen asked how the groups got on coming from so many different backgrounds and cultures , and if they were making any new recruits . |
| 14 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 15 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 16 | And if they were doing their own mailing themselves er mailshot , they 'd be lucky to get between one and two percent reply . |
| 17 | But like , I mean I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things , I could handle it , but like , like on that op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled |
| 18 | But like I mean , I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things I could handle it but like , like on that op op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled . |
| 19 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 20 | This is recognised in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 ( 1983 ) in relation to self-assembly furniture where it was said : The goods would , of course , have to be in a condition in which they could be assembled , and if they were sold without adequate instructions it is unlikely that they would meet the required standard of quality . |
| 21 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 22 | So this T ratio on income elasticity is for the bit right and if we were using the five percent or ten percent as our sort of cut off point , we 'd actually discard income from our consumption , from our demand function . |
| 23 | and if we were looking at running costs and replacing things and |
| 24 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 25 | And if we were to cut further in any significant way , then we would undermine our capacity to look after the defence interests of our country . |
| 26 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 27 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 28 | And if we were to ban the the process , th erm we would devise other means for research , would , we would find alternatives . |
| 29 | Erm and so I , I believe that er the resolution in fact on the order paper will stand er and if we were to remove the first two lines er of Mr 's erm resolution that the County Council he represents if necessary that in a full , a full public enquiry into the fifth terminial at Heathrow , if we get that and graft on the rest of his words er to the resolution er on the Chairman er that will do two things er it reads er the quality of our Officers are suggesting and it picks up again a very important comments er that he makes er regarding post , er , er something that is public erm , er and that it , it meets media and the other improve that 's something for the district office report . |
| 30 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |