Example sentences of "if [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the Leader of the Opposition seemed not to grasp the fact that , in article 118B , the social chapter provided for circumstances in which , if European businesses and trade unions agreed , they could take Europe-wide action through the Council without reference to the European Parliament , let alone this one . |
| 2 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 3 | If European Parliament elections continue to be treated semi-frivolously , such extremists as Mr Le Pen will be over-represented in Strasbourg . |
| 4 | It would be one thing if all pork went up in price , but if European producers still use old methods , they will undercut farmers here . |
| 5 | ‘ But if European funding is distributed strictly on a regional basis it will be spread so thinly it will not have an impact on Merseyside . ‘ |
| 6 | The treaty provided for mutual consultations if European peace were threatened or violated . |
| 7 | Mr Booker , who spoke at Ford 's advanced engineering centre in Dearborn , Michigan , said if European conditions continued to worsen , the company could be forced to shed more jobs . |
| 8 | If European institutions do not respond , the Community itself will be threatened . |
| 9 | Summing up the mood of the pro-reform lobby the NIAPA spokesmen said ‘ The next five years are going to be difficult but we must go onto reform if European Agriculture is to survive . ’ |
| 10 | If European bankers now want to keep their newly won crown , they must resist the same temptation to lend , lend , lend . |
| 11 | If European co-productions follow the example of Leonardo they are doomed : like Antaeus , they will lose strength as they lose contact with the soil of their birth . |
| 12 | The chances of successful socialist planning would be greatly increased , and the scope for multinationals to play governments off against one another reduced , if European socialists could make a more effective collective impact on the making of EEC policy and legislation . |
| 13 | If European governments can display the credible threat to back Airbus if necessary , Boeing shareholders are only going to lose by an unsuccessful price war . |
| 14 | Earlier , he said on East German television that it would be ‘ far from good , even dangerous ’ if European borders were put into question . |
| 15 | In any event , if European consumers have scruples about eating six-year-old beef , they must question whether it is morally right to sell it elsewhere . |
| 16 | Dalton in the opening years of the nineteenth century introduced the atomic theory , which gave a theoretical background to the ideas of definite proportions : if definite numbers of atoms of each element combine , then the total weights combining must also be definite . |
| 17 | If unfeminine means ‘ not characteristic of women ’ , then why is the body hair almost every woman has called ‘ unfeminine hair ’ ? |
| 18 | In Dudley ( W. Midlands ) , where a large proportion of land was privately owned , the Department of the Environment insisted that if enterprise-zone designation was to go ahead , it would only be approved if private-sector land was first sold to the local authority before a certain date . |
| 19 | It would be surprising if prolonged periods of psychological morbidity are not reflected in declining physical health . |
| 20 | An antagonism between early performance and resistance to ageing can occur if prolonged growth during the pre-adult period elevates juvenile mortality but yields a longer-lived adult . |
| 21 | If non-basic beliefs such as these can reduce the justification of basic beliefs , they can presumably also increase it , and in this case there would be the possibility that although our beliefs about our sensory states are always partially justified just because of their subject matter , they are never completely or satisfactorily justified unless there is confirming or at the least a lack of disconfirming evidence at the non-basic level . |
| 22 | As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) . |
| 23 | As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) . |
| 24 | If neither man wins a clear majority , parliament will decide in August , after the usual inter-party bargaining . |
| 25 | If neither contestant has scored three full ippons at the end of the match , the victory is awarded to the fighter with the most points scored . |
| 26 | Register Office , as for The Rational , but with the following additional extras : parents of bride and groom ( if living ) ; blessing in church afterwards ( if either spouse already divorced , or if neither party can agree on going the whole way in a church wedding ) ; any children born pre-union can also be baptised in a job lot , along with the blessing ; more guests and consequently , bigger knees-up at the couple 's home ( or even in a hired room ; marquees are not supplied with this model ) . |
| 27 | Then the sparks can fly , and if neither party is really aware of the power of their own minds as the true architect of such situations , anger and emotion will rule the day . |
| 28 | If neither Herbert Wilcox , Michael Balcon nor Victor Saville started off with much in the way of imaginative flair , they did at least know what was required to build successful enterprises . |
| 29 | In a two-person game , if player 1 adopts strategy A and player 2 adopts B this constitutes a Nash equilibrium if neither player would gain by changing his strategy , so long as his opponent sticks to his . |
| 30 | If neither solution is practical , try burning a joss-stick or invest in a large aerosol spray . |