Example sentences of "if it [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 2 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 3 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 4 | I think if it makes any difference to you we 've got a thingy whirring away there . |
| 5 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 6 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 7 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |