Example sentences of "if it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered .
2 If it happens again next year with new plants , spray them with something like Benlate + Activex 2 .
3 Such negative marketing does more harm than good to our credibility , and if it happens again next year , we will not attend .
4 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 .
5 Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage .
6 The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion .
7 If it goes ahead Double Gloucester might never be the same again .
8 But if it goes down that route , it will face some criticism from its members .
9 The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness .
10 It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof .
11 Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness .
12 Incorporating such facilities when possible does not constitute over-protection if it encourages visually handicapped children to move about freely and with reasonable safety and to make use of standard facilities with increased confidence and independence .
13 ‘ It may get rusty with wet if it stays there all night .
14 If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people .
15 Then if it makes this much difference
16 Nuclear waste is not thought likely to threaten the food chain if it sinks below 500 metres , but researchers are concerned by the lack of accurate information about Soviet dumping .
17 If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form .
18 Coun Dennis Howey told the planning committee that if it closed then local butchers and farmers would have to travel to Darlington and York .
19 Some have become prepared to forgo promotion if it means too much disruption of home and family and if they personally do not want the commuting life .
20 It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people .
21 If it has so little status , why bother understanding it , one might ask !
22 The MSHA has the power to close down a mine if it finds too much dust in the air .
23 In such a situation , action becomes more easily defined if it runs along well-known lines , following precepts which have status and acceptability .
24 To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ .
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