Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If someone puts the Black Spot on Zeneca , nothing is going to make the price perk up in the short term .
2 If someone holds the common belief that we only grow through pain and suffering , for example , then they are likely to create traumatic experiences at a fairly steady pace .
3 And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her .
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5 you know , just ask them if there 's any more money in it if she works the long hours .
6 So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here .
7 She lives in Cornwall like a queen and complains if she has the smallest twinge .
8 If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party .
9 ‘ All that talk of coming between brothers and so on — but she can not speak a wort of any language but English , and is furious if one says the smallest phrase in French . ’
10 If one compares the latest exhibition at the Pushkin with those of the 1970s , the differences are only too obvious : then it was still possible in Odessa to buy a signed landscape by Jacob van Ruysdael ; several of Matisse 's works from his widow , or ( and it would be interesting to know for how much ) two pictures from the school of Pieter Coeck van Aelst .
11 It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again .
12 Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better .
13 It is easy to exaggerate the contribution that the reading of books and other materials make to development if one ignores the rich experiences provided by home , school , and peer group , but reading enables ( as can be seen from the discussion in earlier chapters ) a complementing of direct experience , a further widening of children 's worlds .
14 It is an accusation that 's impossible to repudiate if one discounts the obese-a-weight Buster Douglas , from whom he lifted the crown with minimum effort and maximum compliance two years ago .
15 If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government .
16 The difference between these two uses of syndromes becomes clear if one considers the following situation : suppose , after years of finding that , every time a patient exhibits symptom x , symptoms y and z are also exhibited , a patient comes along who has symptom x but not symptom y .
17 Indeed , if one considers the whole century , a surprising number of the heavily represented poets remained largely unaffected by changes in fashion , among them , Mary Leapor , Mary Jones , Esther Lewis , Susanna Blamire , Elizabeth Hands , and Joanna Baillie .
18 If one observes the horizontal projection of the motion for just one or two periods then one sees a quite well-defined orbit ; one can say whether the bob is moving on a circular , elliptical or linear path , how big this is , and how , for an ellipse or line , it is oriented .
19 If one believes the second conjunct , one must invoke an unusual explanation for the sounds emanating from my mouth .
20 If one extrapolates the low-energy rate of increase and decrease of the coupling constants , one finds that the two coupling constants become equal at an energy of about 10 15 GeV .
21 It can come as a shock if one sees the tiny scale of monsters or creatures that appear quite huge on-screen .
22 One can lose a sense of perspective , too , if one overlooks the positive side of Catholic educational programs .
23 By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high .
24 If one has the legal estate , one is empowered and privileged to do anything in relation to the land which the culture of the time , as represented and interpreted by the judiciary , accords to an " owner of land " .
25 This study could be seen as a pilot study that gives an intimation that if one has the right methodology the data which is yielded can be richer than that created from other methods .
26 If one accepts the golden rule , this involves rejecting Lord Diplock 's opinion that the inexpediency , injustice or immorality of the proposed application of the statute can not in itself be a reason for finding an ambiguity in the statute .
27 He recommends that you add up approximately how many tokens you think your child will earn in a typical day if he/she does the little chores you require and behaves in the manner you are trying to encourage .
28 Labour has promised to restore Trades Union rights to workers at GCHQ in Cheltenham if it forms the next Government .
29 And if it goes the other way , and he 's called guilty of murder , then , worse , he 'll hang . ’
30 But that is a highly vulnerable position for any politician to take - and I doubt if it offers the whole answer .
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