Example sentences of "if it [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 2 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 3 | If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them . |
| 4 | Such responsibilities as education and social services are carried out by North Yorkshire County Council but could become those of Richmondshire if it wins unitary status under any local government changes . |
| 5 | A junior conveyancer is equally obliged to his or her own client , and if it takes that member of the profession a little longer , or if they need to consult with senior colleagues before agreeing to a particular course of action , then so be it . |
| 6 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Unison will be formed next year if it gets similar backing from unions Cohse and Nalgo , and a secret ballot of the members of all three in November . |
| 8 | ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’ |
| 9 | I think if it makes any difference to you we 've got a thingy whirring away there . |
| 10 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 11 | Co-operative R&D may also reduce the costs of doing research if it eliminates wasteful duplication of R&D projects , and , to the extent that co-operating firms apply their research in a wider range of output markets , cooperative R&D ventures may undertake more productive research . |
| 12 | If it raises some alarm for ambulance provision in a scattered community like Teesdale , the implications for a town of 35,000 people like Newton Aycliffe are positively terrifying . |
| 13 | And after scoring the derby winner against Everton in March , Rosy said : ‘ I 'd like to stay at Liverpool but not if it means another season on the bench . ’ |
| 14 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 15 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 16 | If music is like a language , if it communicates some kind of emotional or spiritual message , then noise is best defined as interference , something which blocks transmission , jams the code , prevents sense being made . |
| 17 | Such beauty may make a strong impact , but , if it has little relationship with the inner nature , it is precarious . |
| 18 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 19 | If it has less incidence of such needs , does it not follow that it should score highly in the narrow spectrum of examination results for the most able pupils ? |
| 20 | But goodness can choose to change its nature if it has true freedom of will . |
| 21 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 22 | If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands . |
| 23 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 24 | If it works appropriate use of technologies and procedures will lead to success for any health plan . |
| 25 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |