Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] these [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now , if you set these changes against the objectives of the concurrent advertising campaigns for these brands , expressed in terms of changes of attitude , you find — if you are lucky — that the attitudes have , indeed , changed in the intended direction .
2 If you gave these figures in January nineteen eighty five , approximately by when would they be out of date and inaccurate and would require updating ? , approximately when ?
3 We think it might be voles , we think it could be squirrels , we do n't seriously think it 's anything bigger but I 'm afraid we do n't think there 's anything you can do about it but if you want further investigation then if you send these objects to Fred care of the programme , he will give you a personal diagnosis .
4 Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters .
5 In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning .
6 If we relate these figures to others , for example the recent finding that young children spend 25 hours per week watching television ( 1300 hours per 365 days ) we realise that , while schooling may provide a significant element in a child 's formative years , it is by no means the only or most pervasive one — nor is it , for many children , necessarily the most important .
7 If we put these fragments of information together , we can construct a picture of black adolescents ' perceptions of Creole use and attitudes which is similar to that given by Sutcliffe .
8 If we take these characteristics of perception into an organizational setting , then the verbal and non-verbal signals still provide data for interpersonal relationships .
9 However , most of us are aware of some of our horse 's efforts to communicate , and if we reward these efforts by understanding , the horse will gradually increase its communication with us .
10 If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs (
11 But , even if we accept these directions as a legitimate part of the A text , what Faustus 's damnation consists of is not clear .
12 If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by
13 If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product .
14 The quantity of animals killed was quite dramatic , and if one interpolates these figures into the nation
15 They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools .
16 If they acquired these infections from HIV negative partners , those partners will have been at risk of HIV infection .
17 The hunter is thus motivated primarily by self-interest and pragmatism — the fear of possible retribution — even if he expresses these motives in religious and moral terms .
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