Example sentences of "if it [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ If it happens to both machines it 's obvious the common factor is you , yourself . ’ |
| 3 | If it results in young Pardy being charged with a lesser offence , Deanes will be highly satisfied . |
| 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 | Behavioural : Changes in values so that other people 's behaviour that would previously not have been accepted becomes progressively more tolerated if it relates to addictive disease . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It may be exempted under Article 85(3) if it contributes to improving production or distribution of goods or promoting technical or economic progress while allowing consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 13 | If it goes at different times , it 's a different consignment . |
| 14 | If it crosses over that line , being mad will turn into being a lawsuit . ’ |
| 15 | Notice that a convention is normally followed in which the current at a terminal is regarded as positive if it flows into that terminal . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | A company will be adversely affected if it suffers from low employee morale , for example . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Guy 's bacteriologist Dr Norman Simmons said last night : ‘ If it gets into surgical wounds it can cause infections and blood poisoning . ’ |
| 20 | This claim is not a conscious , spoken claim ; if it gets to that stage , we have already left it too late . |
| 21 | Presumably we shall have a good chew at the clause in Committee , but if it remains in that form we shall certainly be unable to support the Bill on Third Reading . |
| 22 | ‘ If the spirit continues to live after the death of the body , ’ he said to himself , ‘ is it so very surprising if it remains in this world for a time ? ’ |
| 23 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
| 24 | Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) . |
| 25 | The technology , in fact , is getting better all the time : some AFs are now capable of holding the focus all the way from the front surface of the lens to infinity and will lock onto the subject even if it moves from centre-screen right to the edge of the frame . |
| 26 | If it 's a pretty , fleshy nude , or a charming bouquet of roses , or a view of a canal , if it serves as effective decoration without taxing the mind too much , then its success at auction is assured , providing the consignor is n't too greedy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because teachers are , on the whole , expected to have quiet , orderly classrooms they will be most likely to regard mathematics as relevant if it leads to good behaviour . |
| 29 | Similarly , the notion of social development through increasing differentiation and individuation has had a considerable place in later sociological theories , although its political implications have been judged in diverse ways ; from one aspect social differentiation may be seen as creating a mutual dependence of individuals and groups which is a fundamental element in a stable democratic system , while from another aspect ( as in Durkheim 's theory ) it may be regarded as a danger to the political order if it leads to excessive individualism , and then needs to be checked by a moral consensus embodied in the state . |
| 30 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |