Example sentences of "if [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing is expressly said about the rights of one class in respect of either ( a ) dividends , ( b ) return of capital , or ( c ) attendance at meetings or voting , then , prima facie , that class has the same rights in that respect as the residuary ordinary shares . |
| 2 | There are the Sechem , who deal with anything connected with science , and they act as surgeons if someone is badly hurt . |
| 3 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 4 | Like those boys that come in for a single rose as if nobody 's ever done that before . |
| 5 | So er and and they 're quite I mean if nobody 's ever seen a er erm |
| 6 | But how will Lachlan handle a wife that knows what he 's at , and has a great clan of powerful relations at her call if she 's ill done by , then ? ’ |
| 7 | No she she 's been looking but I do n't know if she 's still looking , I do n't know . |
| 8 | Erm what I 'll ask Sophie to do if she 's still going on with it , she 'll be a little bit late , just put a couple of plugs in your ears while I give the answer out . |
| 9 | Find out if she 's ever thrown a race . |
| 10 | has it ? what even if she 's only met him twice ? two or three times |
| 11 | And one daughter is taking A levels and the other is on her way , I 'm not sure if she 's actually taking O er GCSEs or |
| 12 | Only a thousand people a year use it ; but it 's useful if she 's really decamped and you do n't know where she is . |
| 13 | Her claim will not be affected if she is already receiving a state pension , providing this is based on her own contributions . |
| 14 | Males , in particular , are quickly inhibited from approaching a female if she is already interacting with a male partner . |
| 15 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 16 | If she is simply referring to degrees of context-dependency , then she must establish a scale on which such things can be measured . |
| 17 | If she is ever going to learn to stand on her own feet finally , when her grieving is over , she will need your acceptance , for the time being , that what she is experiencing now is something like the intense suffering of a child separated from the security of its mother 's presence , with all the feelings of fear and panic that brings . |
| 18 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 19 | Nobody likes a child who is allowed to do whatever she likes , but then again no child is happy if she is always prevented from exploring . |
| 20 | If everything is properly proportioned , therefore , a steady supply of current is available for the loading . |
| 21 | If something is well written , one should film it . ’ |
| 22 | Traditionally , people tend to equate technology with expense — the idea that if something is electronically controlled or operated using a computer system , then it will inevitably be more costly . |
| 23 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 24 | This is adequate if one is simply trying to calculate who is receiving certain benefits , such as old-age pensions , from official sources , but if we are seeking a realistic conception of who is and who is not a dependant or a net contributor to the economy in a broader sense such definitions are not helpful ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 13 ) . |
| 25 | Altho , although if one is eventually going to talk about the report one could to make it clear to the parents that what one is a subject report and the other is a summate report . |
| 26 | The England captain will have a voice in the selection of a vice-captain , if one is formally appointed . |
| 27 | If one is then to try and specify the grounds upon which it would be right for the court to intervene I do not for my part find it particularly helpful to speak in terms of special or extraordinary cases as distinct from normal cases . |
| 28 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 29 | If one is seriously to provide catechesis for those handicapped in mind as well as body , one has to think through the implications . |
| 30 | This hedonist tends to live for the moment , because if one is constantly distracted from present experience by designs for the future nothing will ever be fully enjoyed . |