Example sentences of "if [art] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lees ( FoE ) said that countries should be made to restore the damaged environment to an acceptable state through practical action and if the country refused to do this only then should financial penalties by imposed . |
| 2 | Its spokesman , Rory Mair , who is also chief executive of Ross and Cromarty District Council , said that if the Government wished to retain any credibility over the matter it had no option but to accept the logical consequences of the select committee report and enter discussions with the local authorities on compensation . |
| 3 | Up to 100 teachers could lose their jobs in Newcastle while County Durham 's education budget will be slashed by almost £3m if the Government refuses to give more help , councillors said yesterday . |
| 4 | If the Government seek to deny this facility to a Council , or if other parties successfully oppose such a democratic test of ratepayers ' views being held , then DUP councillors will vote , as in the past , against a Republican Sunday . |
| 5 | If the government opts to include these former guerrillas in a National Unity Administration ; the President will be free to concentrate efforts on dealing with the cocaine traffickers . |
| 6 | In effect , the theory of the second best says that if there must be a distortion , for example if the government has to raise some taxes , it is a mistake to concentrate the distortion in one market . |
| 7 | This suggests that if the Government wanted to equip all schools with a CD-ROM workstation , it would need to spend over £300 million — an unlikely prospect at anytime but more especially in the ‘ value for money ’ 1990s . |
| 8 | I shall be pleased to give way if the Minister wishes to provide some reassurance on the matter , but it appears that he does not wish to do so . |
| 9 | If the Minister wants to retain this unitary Parliament , he had better start looking at the ways in which he can secure the rights of the people affected . |
| 10 | For example : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract , the whole balance then outstanding shall immediately become payable . |
| 11 | The problems which those words can create are illustrated by a provision such as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract , recover goods already delivered and retain all payments already made . |
| 12 | The drafter may be tempted to overcome this problem by using " and/or " , as follows : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract and/or recover goods already delivered and/or retain all payments already made . |
| 13 | Thus , the above provision could be worded as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone or in any combination : ( a ) terminate the contract ( b ) recover goods already delivered ( c ) retain all payments already made . |
| 14 | If the public decides to hold more cash and smaller bank deposits , the banks will need to replenish the cash in their tills by drawing on their balances at the Bank of England . |
| 15 | This mechanism would work in reverse if the public decided to hold less cash and bigger bank deposits . |
| 16 | DC_ID/ — provides the DC identifier reserved in LIFESPAN if the procedure managed to do this successfully . |
| 17 | The biggest worry on Wall Street , where priorities tend to be narrowly focused , is over the dividend : if the company has to take another $1,000m to $2,000m of charges this quarter to cover further closures , it is unlikely to be able to meet the dividend out of cash flow . |
| 18 | Example 4:10 Tenant 's power to make time of the essence ( 1 ) if the landlord fails to take any step in the procedure for rent review within a period of time prescribed by this lease ( whether or not that step could also have been taken by the tenant ) the tenant may give the landlord written notice : ( a ) referring to the step which the landlord has failed to take ( b ) requiring the landlord to take that step within such period of not less than 21 days as may be specified in the notice and ( c ) informing the landlord that if he fails to take that step within the period specified in the notice he will be precluded thereafter from taking it and that time is of the essence of the period so specified ( 2 ) if the landlord fails to take the step specified in a notice under paragraph ( 1 ) within the time specified in that notice ( time being of the essence ) he shall thereafter be precluded from taking it |
| 19 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 20 | If the translator wishes to maintain this thematic organization and , at the same time , adhere to an obligatory order of subject + verb in the target language , nominalization could probably provide a good strategy in many contexts . |
| 21 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |
| 22 | Firstly , mat modules can come apart , and if the referee fails to notice this the competitor may be injured when his foot slips into the gap . |
| 23 | If the authority plans to spend more than this , the block grant is reduced and the extra costs of the expenditure have to be met from other service cuts or higher rates . |
| 24 | If the dealer failed to do this , commissions he had already earned for selling shares in another company would have been withdrawn . |
| 25 | Even if the vendor agrees to underwrite some of the costs if the buy-out attempt fails , it will probably wish to limit its exposure to the case where it is directly responsible for the breakdown of negotiations . |
| 26 | If a user wants to read all the news stories on say , Lloyd 's insurance , he or she simply types in the name on a computer keyboard and a complete list of stories appears on the screen in seconds . |
| 27 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 28 | If a reader wants to change some properties , e.g. to make fonts bigger or to exploit colour more , he can make a copy of a hyperdocument and edit the context-specifications within the context-table . |
| 29 | If a deviant decides to produce more than the group norm , then all members of the group are threatened . |
| 30 | As I have suggested before , creating and enhancing beauty is a tricky business , for if a woman endeavours to obliterate all flaws , weathering and odd characteristics , she makes herself very vulnerable , for it is easy then to break the illusion . |