Example sentences of "be [conj] if [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of that would be that if the private sector does have things to offer in the way of better labour practices , better marketing ideas , then these will be copied by the B R system and in Sweden it 's quite evident that although very few franchises have gone to the private sector , it has had a quite drastic effect on the way in which the state railway goes about its business . |
| 2 | Its most serious claim is that if a Labour party , elected on a socialist manifesto , attempted to carry out reforms which would seriously shift the balance of power in favour of working-class people , then the ruling class , aided and abetted by the media and US interests . |
| 3 | Another point to be considered is that if a virtual memory operating system is to be used , once the data tree has reached a certain size ( known as the working set limit ) variables created early on in the initialization will be written out to disc . |
| 4 | The likelihood is that if a current course meets the UKCC 's criteria then the National Board may consider an exemption from the new rules , although this again will have to be allowed for in legislation . |
| 5 | The result is that if a Japanese firm was systematically making investments using its earnings yield as a measure of the cost of capital , it would soon be making a loss . |
| 6 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 7 | A very important property of angular momentum is that if no angular momentum is transferred to or from a body then , regardless of any internal changes in the body , its angular momentum remains fixed . |
| 8 | The usual objection to rule utilitarianism is that if the sole point of a rule is to promote happiness it seems only sensible to jettison it when more happiness is gained thereby . |
| 9 | The third is that if the easy way out is taken and the children stay away , then the church will be deprived of their fresh and youthful presence . |
| 10 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 11 | A few Tory Members laughed heartily at the right hon. Gentleman 's contribution to our understanding , but the reality is that if the European fighter aircraft programme falls through , there will be redundancies among the most skilled sector of our manufacturing work force . |
| 12 | By contrast , the position ultimately reached in the English cases is that if the primary reason for issuing new shares is to fend off a potential bidder for the company then the decision of the directors will be one that the courts can overturn even if the directors are acting bona fide in the best interests of the company . |
| 13 | Of course , where the science fiction writers really go to town is on what happens if you do fall in a black hole , A common suggestion is that if the black hole is rotating , you can fall through a little hole in space-time and out into another region of the universe . |
| 14 | The whole point is that if the intrepid aviator got shot down while blasting Gerry out of the skies above enemy territory , he could simply unzip his boot-legs and have a pair of civilian-looking shoes on his feet , and thus pass for a native and so escape those dreadful SS men in their tight little black uniforms . |
| 15 | Another point to be noted in this connexion is that if the dynamic range of a passage does not exceed mf , the balance , upset by the division of one or more departments of the strings , can be restored by means of suitable expression-marks . |
| 16 | These criticisms were basically of two kinds : the first was that there would not be sufficient demand within the system for accumulation to take place ; the second is that if the organic composition of capital rises then again there will be insufficient demand for all the surplus-value to be realised and hence accumulation will be choked off . |
| 17 | However , the major point here for us is that if the chosen word is central to the category meaning which is to be conveyed then it will be produced without modification . |
| 18 | What is also curious , is that if the vertical pointer is lined-up with the vertical stroke of the letter ‘ E ’ so that it becomes an ‘ I ’ , the name SION can be read . |
| 19 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 20 | What this may have suggested to Tolkien is that if the Old English and Old Norse sources agreed that ‘ Earendel ’ was a star , the Old English and medieval German ones agreed he was a messenger of hope to the heathens . |
| 21 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 22 | It is as if an economic historian , collating woeful Financial Times editorials every few years , were to conclude that there really were no business-cycles , let alone longer-term Kondratieff waves of growth and decline . |
| 23 | The apparently fatal flaw in Bekenstein 's suggestion was that if a black hole has a finite entropy that is proportional to the area of its event horizon , it also ought to have a finite temperature , which would be proportional to its surface gravity . |
| 24 | The argument was that if the right hemisphere can store a representation of the auditory set and compare it with the visual probe letter then there should be an advantage in reaction time to letters presented in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 25 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 26 | However , the thinking behind the FMI was that if the budgetary process works and if officials have the information and the skills to use the process then good management will result . |
| 27 | As far as I can remember Professor Ricks 's lecture , his argument was that if the factual side of literature becomes unreliable , then ploys such as irony and fantasy become much harder to use . |
| 28 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
| 29 | It was as if the ideological camera had lucidly snapped a scene in which the foreground harmoniously blended into the distance in a continuous perspective . |