Example sentences of "if it [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If it went about accusing companies of doing terrible things with their accounts and could not then sustain the accusation , its credibility would quickly collapse . |
2 | Delaney stood with one foot on the hull of the craft that looked as if it owed more to space technology than to marine engineering . |
3 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
4 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
5 | If it elects not to prepare group accounts , the exemption under para 8(c) would seem not to apply and as each UK company is not entitled to the small company exemption in its own right , neither can they claim the exemption under para 8(a) . |
6 | We will have a new procedure called Continuous and Non-Standard Surveys which says that they will follow the basic procedures , except where this does n't make sense , and if it does n't make sense the job will have in it 's Master Job File a statement of how , it does comply with whatever it has to deal with . |
7 | So before SuperSparc corrals all the business , he 's sending Sun messages in the press that if it does n't buy HyperSparc — also known as Pinnacle — he 's going to turn round and do the Alpha for DEC . |
8 | I am intrigued if it does n't like wind rock , how it manages to survive on the drove roads over the downs that where Gerard . |
9 | Accept no substitutes ! if it does n't say Croner , it is n't . |
10 | If it does n't low income workers will be stuck in low option plans , high income workers will opt out to fee for service schemes , and ‘ quality ’ health care will be as elusive as it is now . |
11 | If the state of your home is affecting your health , you can take the council to court if it does n't put matters right within three weeks . |
12 | Thus if it does not make sense to suppose that the designatum of " A " might be different from what it is , then " A " is a rigid designator , otherwise it is non-rigid . |
13 | Nias argues that the description of what the primary teacher puts into that amalgam is incomplete " if it does not make room for potentially dangerous emotions such as love , rage and jealousy on the one hand and intermittent narcissism and outbreaks of possessive dependence on the other " . |
14 | The selection of source material will limit the information which can be processed , and may introduce unnecessary overheads if it does not fit material to be processed well ( Sampson , 1989 ) . |
15 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
16 | ‘ If it does not contain interest rates , then it must include an invitation for readers to get full written details of the terms . ’ |
17 | Section 2 of the Act expands on the meaning of " new " and says that an invention is new if it does not form part of the " state of the art " ; this expression comprises all matter which has been made available to the public in the United Kingdom or elsewhere , by written or oral description , by use or in any other way . |
18 | The Bootle computer notifies the Croydon office if it does not receive notice of an embarkation card by the time the visitor 's time us up . |
19 | They do not expect the medical profession to be disinterested , and are disappointed if it does not provide advice and support . |
20 | Such contradictions are bound to beset a working class party in power , if it does not oppose capitalism , but tries instead to make it run more efficiently and more humanely ’ ( Glyn and Sutcliffe , 1972 , p.213 ) . |
21 | They 've got this little thing in their head if it 's not got blood in it no red blood they can eat it . |
22 | And she will do anything to avoid another royal scandal — even if it means not seeing Charles while speculation persists . |
23 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
24 | The success of Let Us Compare Mythologies confirmed Leonard in his decision to be a poet-writer , even if it did not relieve Masha of her concern for his future well being . |
25 | If the auditors ' report under s 248(3) were included in the accounts ( in a way which did not cause confusion ) , the company would be entitled to the exemptions , even if it did not take advantage of them . |
26 | In fact , the study 's summary basically says NT would n't even be a contender if it did n't have Microsoft 's name on it . |
27 | Think what would happen to the electric light industry if it did n't get dark every night . |
28 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
29 | Stating these two objectives , the choice does n't seem easy to me — SoftBench is streets ahead in the market and Thomson would be acting very peculiarly if it did n't use Atherton internally . |
30 | An oriental author , writing as long ago as 1708 , records that one of the cat 's unique features is that ‘ it perishes in a place quite out of human sight , as if it wills not to let man see its dying look , which is unusually ugly ’ . |