Example sentences of "but if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 2 | Yeah but if everybody says no you must n't see |
| 3 | But if everybody wants ( and gets ) a discount , you lose your advantage . |
| 4 | Yeah I know but if everyone went out if you 're allowed |
| 5 | Everyone has their own ideas about how it should be done , but if everyone agrees to lift it together , it suddenly becomes a very easy task . |
| 6 | But if its going to be happening on a regular basis in to Tracy , then perhaps Paul should put a report in to Frank . |
| 7 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 8 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 9 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 10 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 11 | I hear mutterings from the Conservative Back Benches to the effect that the Minister does return with good deals , but if one asked the British farmer , that is not the message that one would hear . |
| 12 | But if one takes only one kilometre , again there is insufficient room for a settlement which would not be close up against the greenbelt boundary proposed by the County Council , and close up against the A sixty four . |
| 13 | But if one manages to gain their confidence the reward is a feast of learning and interesting comment which can only have been acquired by a lifetime spent largely in reading . |
| 14 | But if one does not believe them to be symbolically ‘ true ’ but false to one 's belief in human equality , there is no point in having made this sideways move . |
| 15 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 16 | But if one required a towel and soap , the Duchesse provided both and the money went into the pocket of her apron . |
| 17 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |
| 18 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 19 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 20 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 21 | But if one walks inland across the salt marsh or sabkha and digs a hole , one can find the same algal mat buried beneath wind-blown sand with layers of anhydrite and gypsum . |
| 22 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 23 | But if one troubles to read what Chomsky actually says here , it is apparent that he recognizes that linguistics and psychology are associated with ways of approaching ‘ the problems of language teaching from a principled point of view ’ . |
| 24 | Oh , I will agree that the electronic is very versatile , but if one has to justify a punchcard model , then the electronic would need even more justification . |
| 25 | To select the optimum requires accurate knowledge of the eigenvalues , which at the outset of a calculation is of course not available ; but if one has a general idea of the disposition of the eigenvalues , shifting can save much time . |
| 26 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
| 27 | I am not sure whether we have found a professional group that the Government have as yet failed to offend , but if one exists , it is a growing sector of Shewsbury 's business community . |
| 28 | But if what had followed was also the work of a brother , then the murderer might be present here . |
| 29 | He is generic because it is unmarked , but if we ask why it is unmarked we are told , because it is generic . |
| 30 | It seems obvious enough that ‘ language teachers ’ — the phrase used by foreign language teachers to describe themselves — need to know about ‘ language ’ but if we rephrase the formulation what we in fact have are French teachers who speak French , German teachers who speak German and so on . |