Example sentences of "[noun sg] if [art] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Again permission has been given to the panel to incur the expense if the assembly approves the relevant deliverance .
2 More than 80 per cent of the country would revert to lagoons and salt marsh if the sea defeated the country 's vigilant engineers .
3 That situation lent itself to a kind of reverse patronage if the town annoyed the Administration , and the advice sent to Lord Milton in 1734 when the Stirling people were ‘ very insolent ’ and ‘ were Drinking at the Cross disappointment to L[ord] I[lay] and all his Designs ’ was that the bulk of the troops should be removed , together with much of the community 's business , as a preliminary to an attack on the town council .
4 Under the law , there is no truancy if a child has the school 's permission to be absent or if his/her absence from school is occasioned by : sickness of the child ( not of his/her parent ) ; or unavoidable cause affecting the child and generally involving an emergency ; or a day of religious observance ; or ‘ the school … is not within walking distance … and no suitable arrangements have been made by the LEA for ( the child 's ) transport … or for boarding accommodation ’ .
5 If the Act does apply , the landlord must establish one of the grounds permitted by the Act if the tenant opposes the notice on the basis that it fully intends to resume occupation of the premises when they are reinstated .
6 Section 2(1) of the UCTA forbids exclusion or restriction of the liability for personal injury , but s 2(2) permits the exclusion or restriction of liability for other loss or damage if the clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness .
7 ‘ They used real Armageddon talk , and warned that the Prime Minister would be brought down and that there would be a General Election if the Government lost the vote .
8 If consent is needed any purported transfer by the vendor may be a repudiatory breach of that contract by the vendor exposing the vendor to a claim for damages from its customer and possibly a claim by the purchaser against the vendor if the customer treats the contract as terminated particularly if the vendor warranted that no consents were needed .
9 That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement .
10 So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something .
11 Hayman knew he could n't afford to have the man around to answer to a Congressional enquiry if the shit hit the fan .
12 Repeated bleeding at short intervals is the common pattern if the patient survives the initial haemorrhage .
13 The only potential drawback is that unlike a training course , this program will only be of use if the user has the discipline to use it on a regular basis .
14 In the auction room discretion must be used in bidding and the developer must have a clearly defined policy if the price exceeds the value calculated : he should either withdraw or bid only a marginal percentage above the calculated value .
15 The whole Wolfchild Red Indian routine can only work as a fantasy role if the music transcends the mundane and enables the listener to bliss out on that alone , and if the singer thinks he 's Geronimo , fine , after all we 're quite prepared to accept Black Francis as having some handle on space travel , David Bowie as an alien , Rock Messiah human being and Bono as a cowboy bluesman .
16 I think it will be nothing less than a public scandal if the Queen takes the salute aboard the Royal Yacht far out to sea , as currently planned , without meeting at least some of these forgotten heroes in person .
17 The dealer , as agent for the software company , is a more likely interpretation if the acquirer specifies the system he wants .
18 There could be strong currents , which represent a hazard if the dog enters the water .
19 The sheriff or bailiff must not account to the execution creditor for fourteen days after sale if the judgment exceeds the prescribed sum ( currently £500 ) because under s 346(3) the sheriff or bailiff is obliged to hand over the proceeds to the official receiver or trustee if a bankruptcy petition is presented within fourteen days of the sale of the goods and a bankruptcy order is subsequently made on that petition .
20 There may be an exception if the event causing the injury or damage could only be reasonably explained by assuming there had been negligence .
21 Sir John Hoskyns , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's Policy Unit , has called for a radical reform of the government system if the effort to transform the economy is to succeed .
22 But these provisions are declared to be replaced by those of Article 15 of the Hague Convention if the document instituting the proceedings or notice thereof was transmitted abroad in accordance with that Convention .
23 The council 's deputy Labour leader Coun Bill Dixon , said the authority would work with Caldaire if the Government resolved the issue .
24 The key point about this example is that the features offered by a information medium only confer value and add to the medium 's utility if the customer wants the features and can use them .
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