Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [conj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price you paid was fair enough , but the net result is that if the business fails now it 's you who 'll stand the loss . ’ |
| 2 | The effect is that if the customer does n't show up , the VAT already paid to the Customs and Excise can not be reclaimed . |
| 3 | The effect is that if the selectee possesses only those traits which are predictable from the selector , then the combination is pleonastic : ? |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that feeling within the industry and the related sales industry is that if the VAT gap between this country and Ireland and between this country and France is not narrowed significantly we could lose a considerable part of our breeding industry and our entire sales industry , which are the most prestigious in the world ? |
| 5 | The disadvantage is that if the ball is n't in quickly enough you 're on your way down . |
| 6 | The unstated corollary is that if the computer models do n't predict the impact of El Chichón on climate successfully , it will cast doubt on their accuracy in predicting other climatic changes — such as the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the hypothetical warming effect that is due to the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 7 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 8 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
| 9 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 10 | What , what it 's frustrating for a slow bowler is that if the batsman put his left pad down the wicket and held his bat up in the air , clearly not playing his shot for all to see , then I 'm sure that we , you know , it , the batsman be given out L B W quite frequently , but because the bat is hovering just behind that left pad erm , he 's never given out . |
| 11 | The truth is that if every car on the road were powered by a similar engine , we could all breathe more easily . |
| 12 | My point is that if a player wants to play for Leeds , and has no wish to leave , they should nt have to FOR FINANCIAL reasons . |
| 13 | The essential concept is that if a trigram does not exist then an approximate ( non-zero ) value is calculated based on the lower order transitions . |
| 14 | There 's a certain amount of history because the moon is if if the earth is spinning round the moon is going round the water that the moon is attracting will be rushing to catch up a little bit . |
| 15 | The disadvantage of an equitable assignment is that if the purchaser is to enforce the contract against the supplier or debtor , the vendor must be joined as a party ( see Performing Rights Society Limited v London Theatre of Varieties Limited [ 1924 ] AC 1 ) . |
| 16 | find out what the price is and if the price is you know whatever then you take them out . |
| 17 | The main drawback to this officer/ N.C.O./soldier ratio was that if a party was killed or taken prisoner the enemy scored a success well out of proportion to the numbers involved . ’ |
| 18 | Such a case was not pleaded or included in the judge 's summary of the issues : the nearest the issues come to such a claim is that if a conflict of interest arose , the defendants ‘ would inform [ the plaintiff ] of the conflict and , after due consultation with him , resolve it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We would have converted it to run off the engine , but the trouble is that if the engine broke down , you would n't be able to get the bonnet up to look at it ! ’ |
| 20 | One side effect of this site security mechanism is that if an employee transfers between sites , all that needs to be done by the transferring site records department is to change the site code to the new site . |
| 21 | The effect of the proviso was that if the plaintiff were to recover post-termination commission he would be required to give up some freedom which he would otherwise have had , namely the freedom to take employment in whichever field he wished . |
| 22 | Dr. Goldsmith 's comment was that if the man was physically fit to break out of his cell , he should have been fit to do the lighter task of breaking stones . |
| 23 | Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive . |
| 24 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 25 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 26 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 27 | It 's not necessary to keep *me* happy — everyone is free to say what they like — my only concern is that if a complaint about serious abuse ( or whatever ) went in , those with their finger on the button might look dimly on a footie fan list . |
| 28 | The general preference was that if the message or the information was ambiguous , it was preferable to use oral forms of communication . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most important reason is that if the company should go bankrupt , the pension fund ( which is normally administered by an appointed financial institution ) would not be affected , which can be contrasted with a pay-as-you-go system where obviously there would be no employees left to finance current or future pension benefits . |
| 30 | The reason is that if the examiner is reading your script quickly ( and he may have hundreds of scripts to mark ) he may be puzzled and annoyed by your departure from the order of his question . |