Example sentences of "if a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not need a lawyer either to draw up any document or to advise you although you may wish to consult a professional adviser if a particularly large sum is involved or if there are complicated conditions surrounding the gift . |
| 2 | If a nonresident wishes to make a tax effective gift out of UK source income he should use a Deed of Covenant . |
| 3 | The government subsequently announced to the press that ‘ a research visit to Sri Lanka would be considered favourably if a formal request were made ’ by AI . |
| 4 | The government subsequently announced that ‘ a research visit to Sri Lanka would be considered favourably if a formal request were made ’ . |
| 5 | If a critic has a very decided political or religious point of view , this can override other considerations in judgements about art ; the viewpoint may also give a bias to the description or interpretation made . |
| 6 | If a scholar authenticated a work as by a major artist , then its price was certain to be higher . |
| 7 | Problems of authenticity are not so great or modern art as for other periods , even if a gifted forger like the painter Elmir de Horty can fool some of the people for some of the time . |
| 8 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 9 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 10 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 11 | If a man of such convictions felt it necessary to follow this course , how much more would have his religiously devoted colleagues . |
| 12 | Blake , he wrote , If a fool persist in his folly , etc . |
| 13 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 14 | If a wake-up attempt fails , an alarm report will be printed out . |
| 15 | ‘ Be pretty funny if a gardener 's ladder did n't have earth on it , ’ commented Cook . |
| 16 | The answer is to choose the new ‘ Bountiful ’ , similar if a touch sweeter , instead . |
| 17 | If a glider was blown over with someone sitting inside it unstrapped , that person could be killed . |
| 18 | Finally , remember that if a cold front is due in the summer-time , it may be preceded by some hours by a line of unpredicted severe squalls and storms . |
| 19 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 20 | This can easily be avoided if a simple , systematic check is followed . |
| 21 | Moreover , if a pilot decides not to launch in a situation like this , he must never be overruled or criticised for playing it safe . |
| 22 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 23 | If a loop in the cable is overlooked , it becomes a small kink and it will fail on the very next launch . |
| 24 | Special care must always be taken during the climb away if single-strand wire is being used , because there is no sudden jerk or noise if a kink breaks early on the launch . |
| 25 | If a cable break occurs just after the glider has left the ground , care must be taken not to overdo the lowering of the nose and fly into the ground . |
| 26 | If this happens he will change the angle of climb automatically as the glider starts to gain height , and he will continue to pull it higher for a few seconds even if a power failure has occurred . |
| 27 | Higher up on the launch the drill should be : lower the nose into the approach attitude ; release the cable ; assess if a landing ahead is practical . |
| 28 | A minimum safe speed for most gliders is the minimum cruising speed , but this is only safe at height , where there is time for recovery if a stall occurs . |
| 29 | If a decision is made to abandon the launch at height , it is safer to release first and then to lower the nose , as this prevents the risk of the cable parachute opening and flying up over the aircraft . |
| 30 | If a bad undershoot seems inevitable , again prompt action is needed rather than waiting to see what happens and how far you get . |