Example sentences of "if it is the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 2 | ‘ Music — if it is the RIGHT music — is perhaps the most important of all the means used to help to teach the art of moving well . |
| 3 | Have we any answer to the jibe , ‘ If it is the right thing to do , you would be doing it now instead of waiting for everyone else' ? ’ |
| 4 | It is clear that , within the framework of a dual-route model of spelling , phonological dysgraphia is the pattern you would expect if the non-lexical procedure for spelling is selectively damaged , and surface dysgraphia is the pattern expected if it is the lexical procedure for spelling that is the damaged one . |
| 5 | c ‘ Even if it is the best tree-house I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 6 | If it is the latter kind , then you can be rather more technical and detailed than you might be for the general readership . |
| 7 | A novice is expected to show the degree of skill exhibited by a junior doctor , even if it is the first day on the job . |
| 8 | When you meet somebody , especially if it is the first time of meeting , your senses are working flat out to process all the data . |
| 9 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 10 | Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response . |
| 11 | If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing . |
| 12 | ‘ People on the receiving end of a hoax bomb call never know if it is the real thing . ’ |
| 13 | Crisis Loans — these interest free loans may be made if it is the only way of avoiding serious risk to the health and safety of you or your family . |
| 14 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 15 | If it is the defining error or empiricism to assume that only statements meant to be checked up on deserve serious attention , it is the defining error or the new French criticism ( Foucault , Piaget , Barthes , Derrida and others ) to assume that because some statements can not be verified , no statements can , and hence that all statements rail to refer , leaving us with discourse — language without anchorage in time , psyche or history . |
| 16 | Any rule chosen from the conflict set has its weight reduced by the factor K. If it is the last rule of a successful search , so its action leads immediately to a goal , then the reward C is added to its weight . |
| 17 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 18 | If it is the same problem in all districts then it does n't help anyone make a decision . |
| 19 | It may also be possible to compare these early drawings with a still existing building on the same site , to determine if it is the same structure , and , if so , if any general exterior modifications have been made . |
| 20 | If it is the wrong man , what about the peace proposals ? ’ |
| 21 | If it is the Hindu Sage begins with an O. |
| 22 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 23 | Slimbridge , in southern England , whatever the direction they are taken away they initially fly north-west , even if it is the opposite direction from home ( Figure 4.7 ) . |