Example sentences of "if [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If milk produced in a collective farm spoils in transit because the train transporting it lacks refrigerated rolling stock , who is at fault : the farm manager ? the train supervisor ? the repair shop ? or the ministry which sets production quotas for refrigerated railway stock ? |
| 2 | If carriage governed by a single contract is performed by successive road carriers , each of them shall be responsible for the performance of the whole operation … under the terms of the consignment note … . |
| 3 | If recognition proceeded on a word-by-word basis we would know the beginning and end points of each word , and recognition could indeed take place entirely within the lexicon as these earlier models seem to assume . |
| 4 | It is obvious how important this is , because the relevance of the very substantial database of information represented by the SUC ( records of well over 2 million works are currently held ) could be seriously eroded if automation leads to a progressive decline in notifications . |
| 5 | If demography acts as a constraining context on health care provision , future developments in medical technology open up a bewildering scenario of choice . |
| 6 | Many automated systems permit libraries to track the circulation records of individual volumes , particularly in academic libraries where , if use rises above a certain threshold , the volume may be transferred from the main stock sequence to the short loans collection . |
| 7 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 8 | Part of my thesis rests upon the belief that if deixis operates in a different way in lyric poetry from the way it does in non-literary discourse , it does so in degree , not in kind . |