Those are big ifs in an era of overcrowded classrooms.
Bendtner taking his chances, though, is one of the biggest ifs in football.
There are many ifs in any scenario predicting how the matches will unfold.
But those are just two more ifs in a long series.
There are a lot of ifs in all that, and reasons for caution.
Dixit also served as ambassador/high commissioner to Pakistan (1989 91) and became Indian foreign secretary and chief of the IFS in 1991.
It is one of the more fascinating "what ifs" in counter-factual history: what if Mr Callaghan had called an election in October 1978?
They are also looking at a dwindling number of "ifs" in their long-shot quest to sneak into an A.F.C. wild card berth.
He was accepted into the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1958 and served in different capacities in India's embassies in Mexico, Chile, Bhutan, Japan, and Austria.
Evan Davis, now the presenter of Newsnight, arrived at the IFS in the summer of 1983 as an intern during his Oxford PPE degree, and returned full time the next year.
The IFS in today's Green Budget mentions the OBR with cautious approval, but asks for a number of issues to be clarified, and questions whether it would represent an advance on the existing independent scrutiny of public finances.
