Example sentences of "[coord] if [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates , or if possible measurements , of fuel on board at the time of impact contribute to knowledge of the probable weight of the aircraft and its expected performance in terms of rate of climb or speed . |
| 2 | Register Office , as for The Rational , but with the following additional extras : parents of bride and groom ( if living ) ; blessing in church afterwards ( if either spouse already divorced , or if neither party can agree on going the whole way in a church wedding ) ; any children born pre-union can also be baptised in a job lot , along with the blessing ; more guests and consequently , bigger knees-up at the couple 's home ( or even in a hired room ; marquees are not supplied with this model ) . |
| 3 | But if the calming stops at the boundaries of the housing area , or if specific attempts are not made to carry cycle routes across neighbouring busy roads , then few will be able to use the cycle for their daily journeys . |
| 4 | It does seem to us that the impetus is lost if the library committee is either unable or unwilling to continue its work or if key individuals in the project subsequently leave the school . |
| 5 | The second main method of controlling the exercise of discretion is relevancy : a decision will be declared ultra vires if it is based upon irrelevant considerations or if relevant considerations are not taken into account . |
| 6 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , a clause of the kind described above offers management little protection should the investor come under unexpected pressure to realise some of its investments early , or if new management at the institution believes that the company does not fit well into its portfolio . |
| 8 | If , for example , the arbitrator was bribed , or was drunk while considering the case , or if new evidence of great importance unexpectedly turns up , each party may ignore the decision . |
| 9 | But if the demand remains intense and protracted , or if new demands keep arriving , then the reserves begin to get drained and overload and pressure start to increase . |
| 10 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 11 | It was she who was called upon when a neighbour had trouble at childbirth , or if good advice was being sought in matters of a domestic nature . |
| 12 | When or if other members of the EC move to a monetary union with a single currency , we will take our own unfettered decision on whether to join . |
| 13 | If the Government seek to deny this facility to a Council , or if other parties successfully oppose such a democratic test of ratepayers ' views being held , then DUP councillors will vote , as in the past , against a Republican Sunday . |
| 14 | A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time . |
| 15 | If , deep within me , I have been persuaded by early upbringing that sex is evil — or if traumatic experience evokes that feeling — sexuality can never carry its true attraction or satisfaction . |
| 16 | If something is remembered twice as strongly , or if two items are remembered rather than one , should the change be twice as big ? |
| 17 | It may allow the airbrakes to open during a launch if the lever is knocked or if one side is unlocking a little before the other . |
| 18 | Once again no-one knows why , or if one woman is the ‘ leader ’ , but experiments have shown that male pheromones influence women 's periods too . |
| 19 | In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved . |
| 20 | The indication of a possible error is if the lexical look-up produces no allowable candidate strings , or if all candidates at a word position are rejected by further stages of analysis . |
| 21 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 22 | The drug is contraindicated in patients with symptomatic ischaemic heart disease with either angina or an earlier myocardial infarction , or if silent ischaemia or Prinzmetal angina has been documented previously . |
| 23 | If the government decides to cut its expenditure , or if there is a loss of export markets , or if domestic firms decide to invest less at all interest rates ( perhaps because they are less confident about future economic prospects ) , then the unc line will shift downwards . |
| 24 | If the woman is nervous , apprehensive , or frightened , or if sexual foreplay has been either inadequate or incompetent , then she is likely , quite literally , to dry up . |
| 25 | Fennel — Half a teaspoon of dried fennel or if fresh use the green tops and a piece of the stalk . |
| 26 | In the young fetus , the high mitotic index obviates the use of a mitotic arrestant such as Colcemid ( Sigma ) or Velbe ( Lilly ) , but if the mitotic index is low , as in older specimens , or if large numbers of mitotic cells are required , mitotic arrest can be used to advantage . |
| 27 | Failure to get this message , or if another message appears , the New OED Computer Group Manager should be informed . |
| 28 | Trainers will still be able to change jockeys in exceptional circumstances — illness , injury or if another meeting is abandoned for example . |
| 29 | If the warts are very extensive or if local applications have failed , then the warts can be frozen , using liquid nitrogen , or burnt off with electro-cautery . |
| 30 | I say this in the presence of the Leader of the House : if , heaven help us , there are to be sanctions or if military action is to take place , there should at least be some statement to the House of Commons and a three-hour debate before we go further down that perilous road . |