Example sentences of "if it have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chimpanzee in the laboratory would be unlikely to solve the box-stick-and-banana problem if it had no initial interest in the bananas . |
| 2 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 3 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 4 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 5 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 6 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 7 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 8 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 9 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 10 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 11 | In emergencies , such as a burst pipe or major leak , turning off the stopcock should be the first thing you do even if it has no immediate effect . |
| 12 | The firm can rely on the intermediary if it has no reasonable grounds to doubt what he says . |
| 13 | The claim is therefore that denunciatory punishment is justified even if it has no good consequences such as educating the public conscience and thereby reducing the amount of crime . |
| 14 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 15 | None the less , the question we have posed is an important one even if it has no ready answer ; important because it directs our attention to the ways in which disciplines acquire , develop and , not to be forgotten , discard knowledge . |
| 16 | According to Shaw : ‘ If we do what we say we are going to do for investors they will put up the money for T&L if it has a good acquisition opportunity . |
| 17 | If such a program detective had descriptions of all the high-level languages ever written , and knew them to be all there were , then he could presumably work through them all in turn ( the obvious difference from the human brain case being that , even if it has a high-level programming language we have no idea what it could be like ) . |
| 18 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 19 | If it has a rounded top , projecting only about 25mm above the gravel , it will not harm the tyres . |
| 20 | There is tremendous customer loyalty involved in the fortunes of Champagne , but this loyalty can only survive if it has a two-way traffic . |
| 21 | If it has a mental map , it must have inherited it . |
| 22 | The Labour party 's policy is , ’ If it has a European label on it , buy it , even if it is worthless ; but if it is the British national interest , sell it , even if it is valuable . ’ |
| 23 | Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community . |
| 24 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 25 | In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value . |
| 26 | Most girls would love a flower picture for their bedrooms , and if it has a sentimental significance as well then it will be even more appreciated . |
| 27 | However , when an electron changes from one allowed orbit to another one nearer to the nucleus , energy is released and a real photon is emitted — which can be observed as visible light by the human eye , if it has the right wavelength , or by a photon detector such as photographic film . |
| 28 | Simple material can be unmistakably right if it has an appropriate urge and impulse . |
| 29 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |