Example sentences of "if it makes [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well we can start off with the top one hundred companies and allocate them like that if you want , if it makes things easier rather
2 If it makes things easier for you I won t come in . ’
3 My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience .
4 If it makes sense to sell investment products such as annuities and mutual funds ( which banks increasingly do ) , why not insurance ?
5 And if it makes sense to punish at all , there is some point in trying to punish offenders at least roughly in proportion to the moral gravity of their offences .
6 If it makes sense to see the period 1660 – 1715 as a coherent whole , what was it that changed with the Hanoverian Succession and the failure of the Jacobite rebellion ?
7 The bank , Britain 's sixth biggest , will breach its agreement with staff if it makes workers compulsorily redundant , said BIFU .
8 Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun .
9 I can confirm , however , that the company would not have won this order except as a private sector yard which will have to incur the costs if it makes losses .
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