Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Also , the program has knowledge of qualitative physical principles relevant to its actual tasks , such as that if an object sticks out too far it will fall , and that it will pivot around the support point nearest to the centre of gravity .
2 Why should we worry about this if the marriage remains the harmonious institution for pooling resources which is normally assumed , in economic theory as elsewhere ?
3 There is a particular need for this if the school programme concentrates on reading-scheme materials that do not offer the narrative , emotional , or language rewards of ‘ real ’ books .
4 Thereafter it monitors the quality of the incoming electrical supply , smoothing out peaks and troughs and cutting in for real if the power cuts out completely .
5 I thought to myself , ‘ I fancy a bit of that if the chance ever comes up ’ .
6 THE riots that rocked Oxford , Salford , Bristol and Blackburn could be the first of many if the Government continues with its uncaring policies , president Rodney Bickerstaffe told the conference .
7 And then he would take that complaint , if the branch committee approved it , you see , or nine times out of ten if the branch secretary thought it was a valid case , he would send it in a letter to the sectional council .
8 The relationship between the number of shades of a colour ( or shades of grey if the image is monochrome ) and the number of bit-planes in the memory bank can be illustrated by a simple example .
9 The first of these is the bit-pattern index , in which all the alternative descriptors for each record are given values of 1 if the attribute is present and 0 if it is not .
10 Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats .
11 Well if that 's the case it must be sorted out once and for all if the club is to go forward .
12 Outdoors , there is space , but there may be problems with light if the occasion is held during hours of darkness as well as uncertainties about the weather .
13 Nevertheless , all struggles should have their recompense , and the effort laid out to achieve a satisfactory musical culmination would be in vain if the climax were to disappear before anyone really noticed it .
14 It was finally sinking in that if a year could go by , then so could two , or even three .
15 In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption .
16 These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make .
17 In that if an advertisement identifies particular goods the cash price and the A.P.R. or an A.P.R. Statement must appear .
18 A serious wound infection occurs in 1 in every 100 patients ( 3 in 100 if the operation is for a recurrent hernia ) and other wound problems such as a deep blood clot ( haematoma ) or separation of the skin and underlying tissues can also occur .
19 The social worker is not usually involved in the early stages following the patient 's stroke , but may be called in later if the patient is fairly severely disabled , or is an old person likely to need long-term support at home .
20 Both direct and indirect jobs would be lost some twenty eight thousand in all if the yard were to close .
21 In short if an application does not know how to make use of expanded memory then the memory remains unused .
22 In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most .
23 It can be seen from the table that in general if the department is concerned with economic information , it is also concerned with political risks .
24 Under certain circumstances , in particular if the production rate is constant , there is a balance between formation and decay , and the 14 C concentration in the atmosphere therefore remains constant .
25 In particular if the meeting is in private premises it should be noted that the police can insist on entering the premises even against the wishes of the organisers , if they have reasonable grounds to believe a breach of the peace is likely to occur ( Thomas v. Sawkins ( H.C. , 1935 ) ) .
26 General solutions for such equations are discussed in Appendix A. In particular if the integrand L in square brackets is independent of a coordinate , then the quantity is conserved ( A.3 ) .
27 When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’
28 There might be a better chance of securing assistance for members like Earl Haig in 1994 if the economy showed stronger signs of recovery .
29 The correlations given with whether the junction was previously known or not is a point biserial correlation with data from all 30 subjects potentially available , data was coded as 1 if the junction was previously known and 0 if unknown .
30 Although many areas still recommend that 65 is the upper age limit for basic training for advice work , and 70 is the recommended retirement age , new NACAB membership requirements now allow bureaux the freedom to take a more personal approach to advice workers nearing retirement , allowing them to continue beyond 70 if the management committee and bureau manager agree .
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