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If and were
If you were a man '' --
If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.
If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.
If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
If there were only darkness, all would be clear.
If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;
If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??
If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;
If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.
If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.
If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.
If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.
If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.
If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.
If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.
If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??
If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.
If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If and raining
If it is not raining outside, then is false ; and if there is no cold-front over Kansas, then is false.
: If it's raining, I'll meet you at the movie theater.
**: Argument: If it is raining outside, it must be cloudy.
For example, substituting propositions in natural language for logical variables, the inverse of the conditional proposition, " If it's raining, then Sam will meet Jack at the movies " is " If it's not raining, then Sam will not meet Jack at the movies.
For example, " If it's not raining, then Sam will not meet Jack at the movies " cannot be inferred from " If it's raining, then Sam will meet Jack at the movies.
What can be correctly inferred, is that " If Sam does not meet Jack at the movies, then it is not raining.
" If the attorney is seeking to use this statement to prove that it was in fact raining in Vermont, then it is hearsay.
If someone makes an observational statement, such as " it is raining ", it does seem reasonable to ask how they know — did they look out the window?
* If it is raining, then he is inside.
: If it's raining here now, then it was raining on the West Coast this morning.
: If it's raining now, then your laundry is getting wet.
: If it's raining now, there will be mushrooms to be picked next week.
: If we go out while it is raining we will get wet.
: If we go out while it is raining we will get wet.
If the player finds a certain course to be more difficult when it is raining, he or she can elect to play that course on a day which is forecast to be sunny.
If either one of them tells the other what they know, it will be clear to the other that it is raining.
If we denote by that Carol wears a red coat and with that if Carol wears a red coat, it is raining, we have

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