Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of the plastic ring device termed an Intrastromal Corneal Ring has the added advantage of being reversible if the surgery does not improve the sight condition . |
| 2 | A successful outcome in these areas would seem to be necessary if the EC is to be able to finance the activities necessary to build the new European Economy . |
| 3 | By section 14(2) , vessels were deemed to be British-owned if the legal title in them was vested wholly in qualified persons or companies and they were beneficially owned wholly or mainly by qualified persons or companies . |
| 4 | According to section 14(2) , a fishing vessel was deemed to be British-owned if the legal title to the vessel was vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel was beneficially owned by one or more qualified companies or , as to not less than 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 5 | Such work had to be minimal if the project was to remain viable . |
| 6 | Their permeable skins , however , still dictate that their surroundings are to be moist if the animals are to avoid death by desiccation . |
| 7 | A wave was considered to be peristaltic if the interval between the onset of two pressure waves , recorded at adjacent points 5 cm apart , was more than 0.5 seconds ( corresponding to a progression velocity of less than 10 cm/s ) . |
| 8 | ( Actually , it is surprising how facts often can be proved in practice that at first sight seem to be unprovable if the defendant is prepared to contradict them . |
| 9 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 10 | Flat rate farmers will not be required to keep detailed records , but Customs would expect paperwork to be available if a check of transactions became necessary . |
| 11 | As much as £750,000 extra in investment from Manchester and other northern councils was estimated to be available if the paper moved . |
| 12 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 13 | Painful bowel movements were thought to be present if the child complained of pain during defecation or when the child exhibited screaming or crying in anticipation of , or during , defecation , if the parent reported blood on the stool or if the child had an anal fissure present at the time of examination . |
| 14 | Stool withholding was thought to be present if the child exhibited a certain behaviour at the time of defecation , often termed ‘ the duty dance ’ . |
| 15 | Tariffs and import quotas are deemed to be equivalent if the domestic prices of the good are identical following the imposition of the policy . |
| 16 | If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right . |
| 17 | Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it . |
| 18 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 19 | We have then no reason to be surprised if the distinction between ascription and association in adjectives is overlooked or mistakenly supposed to be a matter of " nuances of meaning " , rather than being recognized as a systematic variation . |
| 20 | You 've asked us a lot about what Governors can do and what Councillors can do , it 's teachers that make a school and schools are going to be excellent if the teachers and heads of faculty in those schools are excellent , and we 've got lots of those in Banbury . |
| 21 | The lifeworld is the intuitively present , in this sense familiar and transparent , and at the same time vast and incalculable web of presuppositions that have to be satisfied if an actual utterance is to be at all meaningful , that is valid or invalid . |
| 22 | ( iv ) If the creditor is aware , or ought to have been aware , that the surety has been subjected to undue influence by the debtor , it would be unlikely to be sufficient if the creditor merely took steps to ensure that the surety understood the nature of the liability he or she was accepting . |
| 23 | Even drinking in a public bar may be considered to be solitary if the principal reason for doing so is the consumption of alcohol rather than for specific social contact . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal , with regret , rejected their claim on the ground that , although the relevant statutory provision declared a dismissal to be unfair if the reason for it was that the employee proposed to join a trade union or take part in union activities , the provision was ‘ not concerned with an employer 's reactions to a trade union 's activities , but with his reactions to an individual employee 's activities in a trade union context ’ ( Sir John Donaldson MR ) . |
| 25 | She wants to be careful if the Japs do n't come to Pearl Harbour again . |
| 26 | Such exemptions are particularly likely to be forthcoming if the participating businesses are small or medium-sized enterprises , although joint ventures between companies with very substantial market shares are also frequently approved . |
| 27 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |