Example sentences of "if [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mucous membranes swollen as if filled with water even . |
| 2 | They are then encouraged to notice and talk about what happens , e.g. a plastic boat floats , but if filled with water , it sinks ; or paper is lighter than a stone , but when it is wet through , it sinks . |
| 3 | Often in films someone goes to a house where he once spent happier times and , slowly , the screen if filled with laughing . |
| 4 | If broken in hand-to-hand combat and forced to flee they move 3D6″ with two horses , 2D6″ with one . |
| 5 | It may be possible to claim on medical insurance if prescribed by a doctor/specialist . |
| 6 | And fourth quarter earnings , if calculated on the same basis , would have increased 11.4% . |
| 7 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 8 | Whereas the moon can be looked at directly , although its luminosity derives from the sun , the sun itself , if gazed at , blinds man with excess of light . |
| 9 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 10 | If formed from viscous magma they are normally limited in lateral extent but where composed of basic rocks they may extend for thousands of square kilometres . |
| 11 | At home Madame , if referred to at all , had always been the person who had been derided . |
| 12 | If referred to Tg as a reference temperature the WLF relation becomes The validity of this relation is in the range from according to Williams , Landel & Ferry . |
| 13 | From the results of cardiac transplantation to date many more such patients could expect an excellent long term outlook if referred before developing secondary end organ dysfunction , but more importantly if the supply of available donor organs could be increased . |
| 14 | If necessary you would then follow-up with physiotherapy treatment ( if referred by a GP this can be claimed back from health insurance ) and remedial exercises in the small but well-equipped gym . |
| 15 | The qualitative variables were : sex , aetiology of cirrhosis ( alcholic or non-alcholic ) , activity of alcoholism ( active consumption at time zero , abstinence for at least one month or undetermined status ) , duration of liver disease from the initial diagnosis ( |
| 16 | If taught to small children as a stepping-stone to the ABC , it could wait a lifetime until everyone had grown up knowing both systems , then the better would simply oust the worst — as the arabic numerals have eventually ousted the roman ones . |
| 17 | Browning 's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury . |
| 18 | The latter sound very 1970 , especially if heard in tube trains . |
| 19 | Chlorinated organic solvents pose a particular threat to groundwater quality because they can penetrate quickly and deeply into an aquifer as a dense plume if spilled in significant quantities , and they then dissolve slowly into the groundwater . |
| 20 | Yeah , thought Jay , as if wading through cement , let's be semantic , let's forget the way our eyes met , the way our bodies clung so hungrily together . |
| 21 | An amount which is still a matter for pride , if tinged with apprehension at the increasing number of unnecessary restrictions . |
| 22 | If fully independent castellans such as those of Bemy and the Mâconnais remained a rarity , nevertheless the princes ' claim to control fortifications was at best spasmodically enforced , at worst absent in practice if recognized in theory . |
| 23 | If arranged along a low wire or rail like a single espalier , they can be trained as long dwarf hedges around borders and vegetable beds . |
| 24 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 25 | Valves of drysuits freeze up if pressed for too long , and a careless diver in a drysuit may find himself suddenly hurtling up to the surface , with potentially fatal consequences . |
| 26 | Accounting policies which if altered for consistency with the purchaser 's policies would have a material effect on the earnings or net assets of the target . |
| 27 | A private good is a good that , if consumed by one person , can not be consumed by another person . |
| 28 | A public good is a good that , even if consumed by one person , can still be consumed by other people . |
| 29 | Remember not to rely too heavily on dairy products as they contain highly saturated fats which could be bad for health if consumed in large quantities . |
| 30 | Although low alcohol products contain lower than standard levels of alcohol , they still contain alcohol and could , if consumed in sufficient quantities , impair driving skills . |