Example sentences of "[noun sg] if [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite an achievement but Ernie would put all that to one side if his 18-year-old son Mark could get to the top as a racer — although Mark gives every indication that he will stick with the short circuits and avoid the roads . |
| 2 | Like the other members of the Lanistes-dwelling ( that is what ‘ lanisticola ’ means ) group they are never going to win a beauty contest if their rock-dwelling cousins have entered , but their charm lies in their interesting divergence from the Mbuna norm , and in their much-less boisterous nature . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Equally , an offeror company may not wish to launch a bid if its own results are poor . |
| 4 | Every effort will be made to ensure that the information held is accurate and up-to-date and it is in your own interest to tell the Personnel Department if your personal circumstances change ; for example , if you get married or move house . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 6 | The proposed areas are included among 40 National Scenic Areas , which affords them some protection , but the Commission feels that they urgently need much better management and investment if their natural beauty , range of species of wildlife and cultural values are to be preserved . |
| 7 | It 's no good blaming the chef if our own broth tastes disgusting , or is simply bland and boring — because we not only chose the recipe , but stirred in each ingredient with our own hands ! |
| 8 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 9 | A company does not have to pay any ACT if its franked investment income ( FII ) exceeds its franked payments . |
| 10 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 11 | You will get no help if your assessed contribution towards the cost as shown on certificate AG 3 is more than the value of the voucher you were given . |
| 12 | Though golf should be subjected to the same criteria as other sports , and a bit of enthusiastic reaction is part of that , it must retain its decorum if its special flavour and reputation for sportsmanship under duress is not to be undermined . |
| 13 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 14 | Possibly a little bracing if your nearest stretch of coast is in Britain . |
| 15 | Ruddock , 25 , signed a three year deal when he moved to Spurs from Southampton for £750,000 12 months ago , and claimed Venables promised him a renegotiated contract if his first season went well . |
| 16 | YOU can also sue in the courts for breach of contract if your new employer breaks your terms and conditions , even if you have only just joined the firm . |
| 17 | Suddenly , however , he turned into an American citizen , a necessary formality if his expanding US empire was to remain legally his . |
| 18 | Of course if your first name is Sebastian and your last name is Coe , then the scientists ' method is a good one to follow , but if you 're just an average slob like me , then my method is not a bad alternative . |
| 19 | Opting for a diesel car can be a canny move if your annual mileage is around 10,000 a year or more . |
| 20 | They do n't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something . ’ |
| 21 | Any signatory of the convention is required to register a formal difference with the secretariat if its own laws preclude it from observing a standard while failure to implement a recommended practice only stimulates a request that the secretariat be informed . |
| 22 | For example , and engineer trained in remote-sensing techniques in the West would be unable to use his knowledge if his own country lacks the computer equipment to make sense of the data . |
| 23 | Designated accessible polling stations , er will themselves have to cover fifty percent or so of a constituency initially and people will be allowed to have access to a designated station if their own station is one that has not qualified at that time , although the aim will be a hundred percent designated er polling stations with full access . |
| 24 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 25 | Chomutov 's town hall on Tuesday sent an open letter to President Vaclav Havel saying it would deny access to all transport and would talk to unions about calling a general strike if its environmental demands were not met . |
| 26 | Holders have no voting rights and can not make any contribution to the management of the corporation except in extremis when they can force liquidation if their contractual income has not been paid . |
| 27 | The cardinal rule is : only register if your taxable income is less than your tax allowances . |
| 28 | The religious communities — or millets — occasionally petitioned the sultan for redress if their religious leaders behaved in an oppressive manner , but on the whole they were left alone , provided they paid their taxes and caused no trouble . |
| 29 | Another proposal I heard last week was that , instead of being fined , parents should be paid £10 each week if their criminal children kept out of trouble . |
| 30 | ( Just in passing we might reflect on the likely reaction in Curzon Street or around the Euston underpass if our own citizens took it into their heads to peer behind MI5 's muslin curtains . ) |