Example sentences of "different if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’ |
| 2 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 3 | The situation would of course be different if a method eventually became available whereby the sex of the offspring could be selected at conception . |
| 4 | Would the answer be different if the Calcutta office billed the US parent direct ? |
| 5 | It would have been different if the other girls had been in the flat , but they were both away for the weekend . |
| 6 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 7 | As the present case shows , the position may be different if the tape has not been played in court . |
| 8 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 9 | ‘ ( a ) It is accepted that no civil court ‘ has any power to decide in a manner which would bind a criminal court that evidence of any kind is admissible or inadmissible in that court ’ ( per Lord Wilberforce in the Rank case [ 1982 ] A.C. 380 , 442f ) and that restrictions embodied in the order of the civil court would not bind ‘ an English criminal court … from admitting the information in evidence at a trial : ’ per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , at p. 446e. ( b ) However it is different if the prosecutor is personally restrained from placing the information before the criminal court , because in that scenario no question of admissibility arises . |
| 10 | It would be different if the rest of the sum demanded had been paid . |
| 11 | The shot glances off the tree and hits A's gardener , B. Can B sue A ? ( ii ) Would your answer be different if the shot had been fired by A 's son , C ? |
| 12 | It would have been different if the trapdoor had been the actual door of the furnace ; or if the coffin had been dragged by visible human operatives ; or if it had gone smoothly , as by the hand of God or the power of irresistible mechanical principles . |
| 13 | Everything would be different if the devils were taken out of Timothy Gedge because God could do anything . |
| 14 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |
| 15 | The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box . |
| 16 | In Jones ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 375 , the Court of Appeal held that victims could consent to horseplay , which resulted in a ruptured spleen and a broken arm , though the position would be different if the accused intended to cause harm . |
| 17 | Lord Denning stated that the position would have been different if the stairs leading to the basement had given way . |
| 18 | But Dalton , who as chancellor of the exchequer naturally welcomed ideas for cuts to overseas commitments , seemed less happy with the prime minister 's further comment that the situation might look very different if the Americans acquired a big stake in Middle Eastern oil and consequently took an interest in the defence of the region . |
| 19 | It 's different if the wind 's offshore because then it can be deceptively close into the shore and further out bigger waves and if you get into trouble you 're lost out to sea . |
| 20 | The court commented that the situation could have been different if the property concerned was of a very high value , or of an unusual nature , ( eg industrial property ) so as to impose too great a risk upon the surveyor if he accepted liability . |
| 21 | The result might be very different if the injured person acted on the advice of a quack , or if , considering all the advice he had received no reasonable person would have taken the course he did . |
| 22 | However , the position would have been different if the nodes had been defective and caused damage or injury to the buyer : the seller would then have been open to a claim in tort , or perhaps under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , but would have been unprotected by any exclusion , limitation or indemnity clauses . |
| 23 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |