Example sentences of "if the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause after all lies not in the nature of the test but in the context of its use , and if the pay of the teachers ( or more likely the viability of the school ) depends on the results , there will be a temptation to massage the outcome . |
| 2 | These empirically derived curves can be expressed in mathematical form if the range of the variables is limited to practical values . |
| 3 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 4 | If the logic behind the proposals was accurate , I would have no objection to them , but I do not believe it is . |
| 5 | Sometimes it is argued that the interests of the shareholders can provide the directors of the company with a purely objective standard on which to base their decisions if the interests of the shareholders are equated with profit-maximization . |
| 6 | If the interests of the members of society could be treated as those of a ‘ representative ’ individual , then the role of the state would be reduced to that of efficiently carrying out agreed decisions . |
| 7 | ‘ Means a two wheeled motor cycle , whether having a sidecar attached thereto or not , and for the purposes of this definition any wheels of a motor cycle shall , if the distance between the centres of the areas of contact between such wheels and the road surface is less than 460 millimetres , be counted as one wheel ; per regulation 4 ( 3 ) Motor Cycles ( Protective Helmets ) Regulations 1980 . |
| 8 | In the innermost pit , if the work of the scientists in the H area had been successful , it would be assumed that a nuclear explosion would generate a heat in the core of tritium/deuterium of one hundred million degrees Centigrade . |
| 9 | Most of the current partnerships in further and higher education ( FHE ) are of this nature , even if the inter-relationships of the parties are complicated , even complex , because the employer contribution usually relates to the financial state of the firm and this may change abruptly . |
| 10 | She looked into the forest to see if the rest of the Women were close enough to catch her , if she could evade these few … |
| 11 | The outcome , perhaps inevitably , was that no new voting system at all was introduced , except for the university constituencies ( for it was deemed that graduates would be able to follow the mysteries of PR even if the rest of the electors could not ) . |
| 12 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 13 | When Hooper went they were 240 for 5 and perhaps just catchable if the rest of the wickets tumbled . |
| 14 | However , if the frequency of the taps is increased to four a second , its behaviour changes and it tries to crawl onto the stick . |
| 15 | Asquith , meanwhile , recognized the necessity for some social legislation if the problem of the Lords was to be solved by another victorious general election for the Liberals . |
| 16 | He now thought that speciation could take place across a continuous territory if the conditions at the extremes of a species ' range were different enough to promote distinct ecological specializations . |
| 17 | Firm I 's pessimism may be more readily justified if the competition between the firms is so intense that Firm II's choice of action is solely motivated by the desire to minimise the profits made by Firm I. This supposition is obviously too extreme to be realistic , but its relaxation involves further problems into which we shall not enter here . |
| 18 | If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug . |
| 19 | If the issue of the shares is treated as being for cash then s103(1) does not apply in any event . |
| 20 | The advantage of running a competition is that it should be cost effective if the cost of the prizes is spread over a large enough number of entrants . |
| 21 | If the water on the leaves evaporates in strong daylight , it can burn the leaves causing brown areas which rot leaving holes and ‘ tatty leaves ’ . |
| 22 | The ratio of a given case is found ( if the opinions of the judges are not unanimous ) by identifying the majority viewpoint . |
| 23 | If the opinions of the referees agree there is no real problem , but sometimes they do not , and even when they do agree the editor 's decision may not appear to agree with the opinions . |
| 24 | Even if the terms can be incorporated without such a notice , reference to the presence of the exclusions may well be relevant if the reasonableness of the terms has to be assessed by a court . |
| 25 | For Dorothy is still not in focus , and one begins to think that she never will be , even if the correspondence of the Pounds ' later years is some day published . |
| 26 | Now , using the same arguments as in Section 12.1 , the new solution will only satisfy the appropriate boundary conditions if the forms of the functions f and g are modified . |
| 27 | Society would be ungovernable , Parliament would be unmanageable , if the majority of the Members had my courage and independence of thought and expression . |
| 28 | If the majority of the employees are seasonal workers , what happens to the rest of local agriculture , to family organisation and to conceptions of work with a shift towards part-time farming and wage labour employment ? |
| 29 | But if the company of the Yanks was ‘ out ’ for most of us , there were always the concerts in the Town Hall . |
| 30 | But , if the end-result of the changes has not been significantly to reduce spending , it remains to be determined what it actually has achieved and what has been at stake . |