Example sentences of "[conj] if [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the body 's vitality is low , or if its reactive powers have been suppressed through long exposure to steroid drugs , homoeopathic remedies are often ineffective . |
| 2 | Where judgment is entered in default under Ord 9 , r 6 the court may on application , or if its own motion , set aside or vary the judgment ( Ord 37 , r 4 ) . |
| 3 | Patients were ineligible if they had previously undergone a colposcopic examination because of a report of abnormal cytology , if their cervical smear was taken during pregnancy , or if their cervical smear indicated atypical endocervical cylindrical epithelium . |
| 4 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 5 | Most sellers will not wish to contract out of the right to sub-contract , since this gives them a very necessary flexibility in times of high demand , or if their own facilities can not produce the required goods for some reason . |
| 6 | And then , though in varying degrees , you can see or hear these specific kinds of work : relatively easily if they are specific forms of your own culture ; with more difficulty , and sometimes with absolute difficulty , if they are forms of some other , especially remote culture , or if your own culture is deeply divided and these forms come from an area that is strange to you . |
| 7 | The business class as a whole does not make up more than 0.2% of the population , although if its outer fringes are included it could approach 1% . |
| 8 | Indeed , in its evidence to the Kilbrandon commisson , my party accepted that if its then proposals had been accepted by the commission , the case for a reduction in Scottish Members to , say , 58 or 59 would have been hard to resist . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 10 | Similarly Becker et al reported that if their ulcerative colitis patients had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations , 39% developed pouchitis v only 19% among those patients who had not had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations . |
| 11 | Australia and New Zealand , originally settled by white Europeans and still following a generally Protestant tradition , are usually regarded together — though it is worth noting that if their native aborigines and Maoris still dominated their populations , both countries would be regarded as South-East Asian , joined ethnically and culturally across the Arafura Sea . |
| 12 | Sue has an army of researchers testing products and companies know that if her monthly magazine gives an item the thumbs-down , they can almost certainly write it off . |
| 13 | It emphasises , too , man 's primitive belief that if his real life task is to be successful , then it must first be enacted in the magic made by dance ( see page 15 ) . |
| 14 | He once told me that if his right hand knew what his left was doing , he would cut it off . ’ |
| 15 | " Tell Master Amyas , " he said , loud enough for Amyas to hear , " that if his benighted father has anything to say to me , then let him get on his ass and come and say it to me direct , because he wo n't get me setting foot on his popish property , not while there 's breath in my body , he wo n't . " |
| 16 | Francis was adamant that if his top players left , he would leave . |
| 17 | Her awareness of him was so intense that if his whole body had been dominating hers it would have been impossible for her to have felt more at the mercy of her own emotions . |
| 18 | Fifthly , to introduce something not so far mentioned , the objection may include the idea that if our causal thought did rest on the given conception of a causal circumstance , we should be able to do well at prediction better than in fact we do . |
| 19 | That 's just me it 's that if your first name , although I 'll probably cross that out . |
| 20 | The Dutch do n't see that if your busy flight to you actually want to go to Amsterdam . |
| 21 | I am sure that if my hon. Friend maintains his position with his normal consistency , the day will come when the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) will join him yet again in that view . |
| 22 | I hope that if my hon. Friend the Minister has time he will deal with those points in replying to the debate . |
| 23 | I am confident that if my hon. Friend the Minister wants to do this , he can . |
| 24 | and if her green elegance |
| 25 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 26 | In studying these laws the reader should bear in mind our philosophy that nondivergent processes are equivalent if they have the same communications , minimal acceptances and terminations , and if their possible behaviours after each communication are equivalent . |
| 27 | And if their own experiences are dealt with , ‘ they feel they can offer something to their children ’ . |
| 28 | No particular doctrine is intended and if my expressed conclusions attract adverse comment , or my suggestions are ridiculed , it is sufficient that discussion and consideration took place with the aim of helping the many unfortunate people of our country who are at present without hope . |
| 29 | In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) . |
| 30 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |