Example sentences of "but if [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects may not seem to have anything to do with the work , but if disunity and depression occur it 's quite likely that there is an unseen cause . |
| 2 | If at the pre-trial review the defendant does not appear and has not delivered an admission or defence and the plaintiff produces evidence as to the amount of his damages , then judgment may be entered for them ( Ord 17 , r 2(2) ) , but if evidence is not then produced the court may enter a judgment for unliquidated damages and thereafter , unless the court has itself fixed a date for assessment of such damages , the plaintiff may apply for such assessment on seven days ' notice to the defendant ( Ord 22 , r 6(1) ) . |
| 3 | Runcom has probably made more original contributions to more branches of the subject than any other geophysicist ; but if history judges his work on that basis alone , it will come up with an incomplete assessment . |
| 4 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 5 | But if romanticism suits the Devil because it has a habit of slipping us into unreality-away from the real battle — it has an even more pernicious aspect . |
| 6 | But if selection positively encourages the change or is neutral to it , most or all the individuals in a population would gradually change from one phenotypic form to another . |
| 7 | But if selection is to be made , when should it be done , how and on what principles ? |
| 8 | But if selection is to take place , it seems reasonable to attempt to do so on the basis of what an organisation saw as important in its own terms at the time , rather than attempting to apply current research criteria to the process . |
| 9 | But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone . |
| 10 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 11 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 12 | But if widowhood is such a double shock for many women , why do widows survive much longer than widowers ? |
| 13 | But if kind is interpreted more narrowly , then it will have the effect of limiting the defendant 's liability . |
| 14 | But if inflation could be brought quickly down again , the balance of payments would look after itself . |
| 15 | There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse . |
| 16 | Now inflation 's very low at the moment , but if inflation took off again and got into double figures , then not only would your pensions suffer , but your bills would go up as well . |
| 17 | ‘ At a time of high inflation , two or three percent flexibility a year is fine , but if inflation goes up to 12 per cent , you 're in trouble and the profit is wiped out . ’ |
| 18 | I am not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate about the underfunding of sport , but if sport is using underfunding as an excuse or justification for taking large amounts of money from the tobacco industry , the Government must address the question whether they should put more money into sport so that sport does not have to use that excuse . |
| 19 | But if exercise is not kept up , the body reverts to its original inactive state . |
| 20 | But if animal populations are too small , then they simply die out . |
| 21 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 22 | But if King is discouraged by the change in his fortunes he does n't show it . |
| 23 | But if Government words translate into action , they hope their suffering will not be shared by others . |
| 24 | But if development rights belong to the state , surely so should the associated development values ? |
| 25 | We may overcome our individual pride but if pride is in our nature , then it will colour all our thoughts and actions . |
| 26 | But if interference effects do indeed operate at retrieval rather than on the formation of the CS-US association , it should be possible to show that an apparently weak association formed after conditioning with a pre-exposed stimulus can be revealed as being perfectly strong in appropriate conditions of testing . |
| 27 | But if schizophrenia made Van Gogh a better painter so the spectrum of writing in the Bible makes it a more reliable testament of the religious life of man . |
| 28 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 29 | Costs remain essentially unchanged if these forks continue to elongate isometrically , but if elongation instead proceeds by further deepening of the fork through lengthening its outer but not its central feathers , these outer feathers eventually project beyond the point of maximum continuous width even when spread . |
| 30 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |