Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] if [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have to accept that if the coach Doug Laughton wants Ellery as captain that is the end of the matter .
2 As a condition of this appointment you are required to accept that if the appointment is not renewed or extended at the end of the period referred to you will not be entitled to claim any rights to complain of unfair dismissal under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , as amended , which authorizes the exclusion by agreement of any such claim in the case of an appointment for a period of one year or more .
3 You are further required as a condition of this appointment to accept that if the appointment is not renewed at the end of the period referred to then you would not be entitled to claim any redundancy payment under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 or under any analogous provisions , should your appointment not be renewed at the end of the period referred to .
4 It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure .
5 These horoscopes seemed to indicate that if the union went ahead it would be ill-fated and barren . ’
6 And they had sufficient imagination to see that if the sea could curve one way , then it could curve the other way also .
7 The Local Management of Schools was due to be introduced from 1990 and the Conservative group in had the foresight to see that if the scheme was given a fair wind , and the full support of the Council , it would come to be recognised as one of the greatest reforms of education .
8 I want to emphasise that if the acute care of myocardial infarction is to be effective , it has to be very acute care .
9 Magellan refused , of course — except that he was evidently frustrated enough at the lack of success in finding a way through to promise that if no strait was found by the time they had eaten up another 25° of latitude , he would turn east as they wished .
10 Marjory , his daughter by his first wife , was persuaded to agree that if the king died without a son the crown should pass to his brother Edward ; but to be on the safe side a marriage was arranged between Marjory and Walter , the hereditary High Steward , who in spite of his youth had distinguished himself at Bannockburn and become one of Bruce 's most trusted lieutenants .
11 Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court .
12 They got the council to agree that if the authority would supply the shrubs , they would landscape the land .
13 It not take him long to realize that if the police wanted someone to carry the can , then Dirk Coetzee was heading for death row .
14 At such a time , it is good to remember that if the new church is to take territory for Jesus there may well be spiritual forces with whom you are on collision course .
15 Meanwhile it is important to remember that if the leading officials in the British Foreign Office were becoming increasingly hostile towards the USSR , Attlee was still putting the case for an accommodation as late as January 1947 .
16 we just have a recap , okay , if there 's any congenital amalgamation particularly in the central nervous system , things like spina bifida , hydrocephalus , problems like that and any underlying infection or feeding difficulties and the feeding difficulties could be cause or effect , we 've got a baby that 's erm , who 's temperature is dropping , it 's getting more sleepy and erm it 's difficult to feed and if a baby 's not feeding properly it wo n't be able to warm itself up .
17 But defending solicitor , Nic Parry , said that the court should not allow the ‘ law of the jungle of Holywell ’ to rule and if the case had to be adjourned for reports , then Catherwood , who admitted assault , should be allowed home .
18 But defending solicitor , Nic Parry , said that the court should not allow the ‘ law of the jungle of Holywell ’ to rule and if the case had to be adjourned for reports , then Catherwood , who admitted assault , should be allowed home .
19 The wording of the concession would seem to suggest that if the husband moves out of the matrimonial home and makes no election that his new home is his main residence then he need do nothing further , since on any subsequent transfer of the former matrimonial home to his former wife the principal private dwelling house exemption will be available ( provided she has continued to live there ) .
20 The psychological problems arise because those not born to it tend to assume that if the horse does n't do it when asked , the rider ca n't be asking properly .
21 Birkenhead , the chairman of the committee , which had produced rather limp conclusions , is reported to have broken an awed silence to announce that if the Prime Minister spoke to the House as he had just spoken to the Cabinet he would do so with unanimous support and triumphant outcome .
22 If it is excitatory , it makes the postsynaptic cell more likely to fire whereas if the signal is inhibitory it makes the postsynaptic cell less likely to fire .
23 In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision .
24 Looking around I had to conclude that if the training has no roots in the ‘ real life ’ of school then the answer is bound to be — not very much .
25 It is possible to hypothesise that if the District had surrendered its providing powers under the rural areas scheme , the weakened position of WEA Districts elsewhere in the country might have tilted provision for liberal adult education decisively towards university control in conjunction with LEAs .
26 Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward .
27 to leave if if the voluntary severance comes up again and the whole purpose of the exercise is to look to our future .
28 He had no idea what he was going to do and if the crow had ignored hid he would probably have been at a loss .
29 The fundamental approach must be to visualise the risks of a fire from every aspect in the total project , to ensure that if a fire occurs , it can be kept small and cool .
30 The underlying principle of configuration control states that it should be possible at any time during the lifetime of a supported product to reconstruct a particular supported version of it to ensure that if a change is agreed and installed , then that change and no other would occur .
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