Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dewi , a former Tokyo bar girl , had faced up to 16 years in prison but could now avoid jail completely if she behaves for two years . |
| 2 | If it passes on lower costs to its customers in the form of lower prices it may be open to the accusation of behaving in a predatory fashion . |
| 3 | ‘ If it happens to both machines it 's obvious the common factor is you , yourself . ’ |
| 4 | Specifically , a stricture in ulcerative colitis is more likely to be malignant ( 1 ) if it occurs after 20 years of duration of the disease , ( 2 ) if it is located proximal to the splenic flexure , and ( 3 ) if it presents with obstructive symptoms . |
| 5 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 6 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 7 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 8 | A succession of full chords for wind and horns bears a rather oppressive resemblance to the sound of a harmonium if it continues for many bars without relief . |
| 9 | Specifically , a stricture in ulcerative colitis is more likely to be malignant ( 1 ) if it occurs after 20 years of duration of the disease , ( 2 ) if it is located proximal to the splenic flexure , and ( 3 ) if it presents with obstructive symptoms . |
| 10 | If it goes at different times , it 's a different consignment . |
| 11 | For example , if the notion of human rights is a meaningful one ( itself in hot dispute ) , and if it extends to all humans , including the severely and terminally brain-damaged , then how could we logically fail to extend the notion to at least some animals ? |
| 12 | The other is ease of exit from the industry , not just by a company if it gets into financial difficulties and is forced to leave , but also by any particular customer . |
| 13 | Guy 's bacteriologist Dr Norman Simmons said last night : ‘ If it gets into surgical wounds it can cause infections and blood poisoning . ’ |
| 14 | long as it is sealed , but if it escapes in large quantities , when a hole is drilled for example , the tiny fibres can cause serious lung diseases . |
| 15 | If it comes across any orifices , holes , crypts , or glands , it will , however , gladly occupy these , and there may then be a degree of tissue destruction . |
| 16 | Point out that this is an extremely undemocratic and élitist attitude , particularly if it comes from public figures . |
| 17 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 18 | It follows that because a practice may work well in one country , there is no guarantee that it will continue to do so should it be transferred elsewhere , especially if it conflicts with indigenous traditions and social values . |
| 19 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 20 | If he fails in two subjects he will have to repeat the year even if he does well in all other subjects . |
| 21 | On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time . |
| 22 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 23 | If he comes within two feet of me my hands start shaking . |
| 24 | So it will matter then to the child that if he types in four times two plus one , it 's got to be the right version of that sum . |
| 25 | Even if he dies within seven years no inheritance tax is payable provided the son broadly continues to use the property for agricultural purposes . |