Example sentences of "and if [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 And if everybody does
2 Are we going to prepared to start that then , I 'll say we started , I make it , I make it dead on twenty five to now , but if we go by that clock , and if everybody goes by that one it 's probably easier , because that 's between twenty five to , so if we make it about eighteen minutes past .
3 And if everybody starts getting very large discounts and the vendor loses control of the market , not only do the buyers lose all their advantage , but the vendor loses its corporate shirt .
4 And if something does n't taste like wine , I for one do n't want to waste my time trying to pretend it does .
5 and if something happens that we feel is important and so one of your form tutors has something that they 're committed to and you wan na bring that in that 's fine .
6 They have to reveal all , and if something goes wrong how are they to know that all that information will not be handed back to the secret police from whom they are trying to escape by seeking asylum ?
7 For the club handicap player , the 1 and 2-irons , and if something has to go from the woods I would leave out either the driver or 2-wood .
8 And the other thing erm which er er is good , supposing you 're watching er a programme and there 's a football match on and you 're interested in the , the football er but you do n't really want to keep , you know , switching to find out what the score is , er I 'm talking about teletext as opposed to a programme , you press the update and it w er and if something 's happened , you know , they 've changed and there 's been a score , it 'll come up er er while you 're watching the programme , er it 'll let you know that erm there 's been something happening .
9 And if nobody 's caught the person who was it is it again .
10 Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another .
11 The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle .
12 And if one goes back er and think about that wages were probably no more than two pounds a week on average , at that time , the er share capital of the Rail Railway I think I 'm right in saying , was four hundred and fifty million pounds at that time .
13 McFarlane argued that on balance England did not lose from the war , and if one thinks in strict cash terms , the evidence supports him .
14 The quantity of animals killed was quite dramatic , and if one interpolates these figures into the nation
15 Another Mitchell known as " Puddin " was for many years tree planter in the village and at the later part of the 19th century planted trees around the cemetery , always maintaining he was one short , and if one takes the trouble to look there is a gap still awaiting the missing tree .
16 The magnitude of the special needs post-holder 's task becomes clear if one considers that these skills are to be geared to assisting classroom teachers of varying lengths of career experience ( often considerably longer than that of the ‘ qualified ’ supporter ) and range of subject specialities ( beyond the supporter 's expertise ) — teachers already under pressure from many directions and with ambivalent feelings about ‘ hawing problems ’ and ‘ being seen as in need of help ’ ; and if one considers that the supporter 's extended task is to deepen these colleagues ' understanding of ‘ special ’ learning needs , to enhance their skills , discover and develop their strengths and the confidence that the professional know.how they possess can be summoned for responding more appropriately to most of the behavioural , emotional and learning difficulties they encounter .
17 The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth .
18 In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties .
19 The way that erm one might have effective treatment for muscle invasive bladder cancer , if one uses radiotherapy , is maintain a decent oxygen supply to the tumour and if one uses chemotherapy to deliver the blood to the tumour .
20 each has a separate thumbnail file , and if one does not exist for any given image , PhotoFinish creates one .
21 If I see one drop th they they circle and if one drops they go down too .
22 Cats and dogs can see doppelgangers , and if one looks wide-eyed over your shoulder this is the likely cause .
23 But it 's proposed to continue and if one looks at table N Y thirteen , tabled today , one sees that the residential land supply in and around Greater York up to two thousand and six , disregarding the new settlement , shows that out of a total of between eight thousand three hundred and eighty and eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dwellings , between three thousand eight hundred and ninety and four thousand one hundred and sixty , are destined for Ryedale .
24 Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position .
25 But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year .
26 There should be two heaters — not heaterstats — in this tank , ideally governed by an external thermostat so that if one overheats they are switched off , and if one fails the other will probably maintain a safe heat .
27 Romans and Jews mill confusingly in the background , like extras on a film set , and if one has any concrete image of them at all , it generally derives from one or another Hollywood spectacular — Pilate complete with Brooklynese accent .
28 Dancing was a pleasure in itself , as holidays were , and if one has to take them alone or with friends , then why not face the music and — give it rock all !
29 And if one moves from the statistical to the policy level , who are the most likely people to offend on bail ?
30 But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth .
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