Example sentences of "if [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 If extracts rather than complete texts are used , they should be free-standing and coherent in structure and content .
2 If need rather than a particular handicap is made the measure against which provision shall be made , the needs of each child must be clearly identified and regularly reviewed and realised .
3 Some of these surveys , for example the one carried out in Birmingham , illustrate the different impact of the tax if individuals rather than households are chosen as the basis for the calculation .
4 bloody ages doing things like if , if mode so and so to work out whether it 's a Monday or a Tuesday or something and then trying and everything else to try and get
5 If incidence rather than prevalence is of interest , a longitudinal panel study is essential even though the administrative burden can be heavy .
6 If variation rather than fidelity is required in the management of change , then the restrictive views of professionality and management currently underpinning much thinking would not seem to be the most appropriate model for the future .
7 Madam Speaker I am sure that my right honourable friend the Chancellor 's proposals to er reduce the burden of national insurance contributions will have a very beneficial effect er on employment a and on businesses but er if members opposite and er the honourable gentleman er says what he thinks clearly , if members opposite are arguing that higher public expenditure and higher taxation will have an impact on employment then he 's absolutely right .
8 Then if growth rather than income is your main aim add America and Japan .
9 Alexander was probably right to think , as he evidently did , that he would be better off if Persia rather than Athens ruled the Aegean : within a decade of the establishment of the Delian League , Athens began the expansion in the north , and the attempt to settle Amphipolis , on the River Strymon , which at certain times in the next century and a half dominated her foreign policy to the exclusion of all else ( Thuc. iv.102 ; Σ Aischin. ii.31 ) .
10 The picture changes dramatically , however , if adults rather than households are used as the basis of the calculation .
11 If debt rather than tax finance is adopted , then future taxpayers have to pay interest on the debt , but this is purely a transfer payment .
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