Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , although the simpler level of search has no metric and involves random jumps , there is a notion of proximity at the higher level : Two states are close if the proportion of RAM chip cells with different entries is small . |
| 2 | This may be known to some as ‘ appraisal ’ or ‘ evaluation ’ but such titles are inappropriate if the process is meant to enable advisers to express freely whatever is on their mind , as the idea that advisers are in some way being assessed during the meeting could inhibit them from airing problems . |
| 3 | A pool of people who could read and keep ledgers was essential if the world of commerce were to expand . |
| 4 | The Commission felt that both elements were necessary if a balanced and effective course in citizenship were to be provided . |
| 5 | Investors should be aware that these securities are irredeemable and therefore the real return in future years is vulnerable if the UK inflation rate rises again . |
| 6 | They believed that the conversion of Japan into a nation of prosperous owner-farmers was crucial if a democratic , peace-loving state was to become a reality . |
| 7 | In these cases abortions are legal if the mother or child is diagnosed by two doctors ( usually the G.P. and the gynaecologist performing the operation ) . |
| 8 | One leading proponent , J.B. Thornes , in contributing to an interdisciplinary symposium in Geography , Archaeology and Environment , affirmed that palaeoenvironmental reconstructions are crucial if the understanding of the ecology of past societies is to be substantially improved ( Thornes , 1983a ) and elsewhere ( Thornes , 1983b ) has advocated evolutionary geomorphology and has anticipated that it will produce major new insights into historical problems such as river terrace formation and his proposal is considered more fully in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) . |
| 9 | Hence amplifiers involving first-order networks are stable if the closing angle between plots of and is less than 12 dB per octave as crossover is approached . |
| 10 | In particular , since oscillation is avoided if the phase shift is less than at the frequency at which falls to unity , it follows that a negative-feedback amplifier involving just first-order networks is stable if the slope of the plot of versus is less than 12dB per octave as the condition is approached . |
| 11 | New words and names were essential if the new knowledge was to be effectively communicated , and they would have to be clearly defined . |
| 12 | And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none . |
| 13 | Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front . |
| 14 | I have tried to do that year in , year out because I believe that in environmental terms — if in no others — keeping people , their sheep and their cattle in the hillsides is essential if the hillsides are to be kept as they should be . |
| 15 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 16 | These controls are necessary if the business company is not to threaten the traditional liberal distrust of unconstrained power normally encapsulated in the adherence to the Rule of Law . |
| 17 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 18 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 19 | These results show that there is a higher complication rate if there are features of Crohn 's disease but that the medium term functional results are acceptable if the pouch can be retained . |
| 20 | Competitive markets are essential if the market system is to operate effectively . |
| 21 | There may be resource implications , but the involvement of such experts is essential if the pupils concerned are to be enabled to perform in English to their full potential . |
| 22 | Digitizing existing maps is essential if the data derived from decades of surveying ( topographic , geological , pedological , and so on ) are to be made available to digital cartographic systems . |
| 23 | Producing quality products is important if the company is to continue to compete in the international marketplace . |
| 24 | Thus , to test the restrictions in our simple example we would estimate equations ( 3.19 ) and ( 3.20 ) separately and , from the sum of square residuals for each regression , compute the F-test statistic given above ; then , compare the result with the critical F value , given the appropriate degrees of freedom , and reject the hypothesis that the restrictions are valid if the computed F statistic is higher than the critical value from tables of the F distribution . |
| 25 | Parts lists including description reference numbers and sometimes drawings are necessary if the user is expected to deal with his own replacements . |
| 26 | While certain proteins cause these effects to a less extent than others , it is generally considered that uncontrolled adsorption of protein on surfaces in large amounts is undesirable if the surface is to be biocompatible . |
| 27 | If we take a view about fairness , then the funding of capital schemes is fairer if the charge and the cost of the those schemes is spread over the life of the the asset . |
| 28 | However , despite the costs involved , a proliferation of institutions offering differing conceptual and functional approaches is necessary if the full creativity of rural people is to be liberated . |
| 29 | My release with the others is impossible if the prisoners in Kuwait and in some European countries are not released . |
| 30 | There is a readily identified ‘ central government interest ’ within the state of destination where considerations of sovereignty may be seen to be involved and where some knowledge of the nature of the documents is necessary if the state of destination is to be sure that its public policy ( e.g. as to bank secrecy ) is not offended . |