Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go and make the sauce , then I 'll have a bath while it 's simmering if the generator 's up to it . ’ |
| 2 | It 's different if the wind 's offshore because then it can be deceptively close into the shore and further out bigger waves and if you get into trouble you 're lost out to sea . |
| 3 | Since men are usually a bit taller than their female partners , it 's easier if the man can stand so that he 's a little lower than his partner . |
| 4 | It is helpful if a pupil who is totally dependent on the use of spectacles for schoolwork can have a reserve pair , since repairs can sometimes take time . |
| 5 | It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’ |
| 6 | It is helpful if the decision is approached in the same way , using the same criteria , in all departments , to ensure that all such decisions support company policy . |
| 7 | It is helpful if the decision is approached in the same way , using the same criteria , in all departments , to ensure that all such decisions support company policy . |
| 8 | It is understandable if the core discipline(s) , with their internal forms of evaluation , constitute the majority of the student 's course . |
| 9 | It follows from eqn ( 4.9 ) that it is finite if the path encloses the time-varying flux but zero otherwise . |
| 10 | On those grounds it ought to be possible to argue that , if a trust has been created , it is actionable if the standard of care shown by the fathers was adequate in the judgment of a good man . |
| 11 | But , even with the carrot of a free lunch , it is debatable if the occasion will attract an attendance of the quantity and quality desired , for two reasons . |
| 12 | It is easiest if the man carrying the stake walks behind the net and the man setting the net walks in front of it . |
| 13 | ‘ ( a ) It is accepted that no civil court ‘ has any power to decide in a manner which would bind a criminal court that evidence of any kind is admissible or inadmissible in that court ’ ( per Lord Wilberforce in the Rank case [ 1982 ] A.C. 380 , 442f ) and that restrictions embodied in the order of the civil court would not bind ‘ an English criminal court … from admitting the information in evidence at a trial : ’ per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , at p. 446e. ( b ) However it is different if the prosecutor is personally restrained from placing the information before the criminal court , because in that scenario no question of admissibility arises . |
| 14 | For instance , in Sibree v. Tripp , Parke B. says , ‘ It is clear if the claim be a liquidated and ascertained sum , payment of part can not be satisfaction of the whole , although it may , under certain circumstances , be evidence of a gift of the remainder . ’ |
| 15 | But it is doubtful if the problem can or should be solved with spending cuts alone . |
| 16 | But it is doubtful if the problem can or should be solved with spending cuts alone . |
| 17 | It is doubtful if the mill could ever be operated on a commercial scale and in Wilf Medlam 's words it is ‘ a desirable and harmless anachronism , doing its bit to satisfy the immense demand for 100% wholemeal flour ’ . |
| 18 | It is doubtful if the image of the conventional family ever accurately described the majority of families in Britain . |
| 19 | It is doubtful if the material is there for a first-class combination . ’ |
| 20 | It is doubtful if the material was actually used in this way , but the engraved sealstone is another art that does revive in Greece at this time . |
| 21 | However , in nearly all the instances of so-called casual working in manufacturing examined , it is doubtful if the term " casual " was applied correctly . |
| 22 | It is doubtful if the claim of the kings of Burgundy and Italy to bear the title emperor had more substance than the fact that they held the north of Italy and the chief routes over the Alps and were therefore in a position to put pressure on the pope . |
| 23 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 24 | The great bulk of it depicts the periods of Kilvert 's life as a curate in Clyro and Langley Burrell , and as a picture of the life of mid-Victorian rural society seen from the perspective of the gentry , it is questionable if the diary has ever been bettered . |
| 25 | It is sufficient if the document is , for example , handed to a part-time cleaner employed by the defendant in his home . |
| 26 | It is not an absolute duty requiring the closing down of the premises ; it is sufficient if the defendant has done that which was reasonably practicable in the circumstances . |