Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 2 | Keeping your eye on court lists can also tell you something about the firms appearing and if a firm consistently acts for the plaintiff against health authorities you can be fairly sure that their specialism lies in medical negligence . |
| 3 | He had no hobbies , maintaining that if a person needed hobbies , then there was something wrong with his work . |
| 4 | A 1982 White Paper again recommended greater disclosure suggesting that if the document itself could not be issued , material should be disclosed to enable the public to know the type of information which was being withheld . |
| 5 | In the judgment , Lord Denman C.J. states that the court need not inquire what the effect of a demurrer to that plea would have been , thus hinting that if the plaintiff had then demurred , the defence might not have been found sufficient . |
| 6 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 7 | Many pilots quite unwittingly take off with the stick right back , not realising that if the launch fails when they have just left the ground , an accident will be inevitable . |
| 8 | What hope have Western Samoa got of developing that if a conveyor belt of their top talent is forever being diverted into All Black hands ? |
| 9 | Shopkeepers are warning that if the trend towards out-of-town superstores continues , a town 's high street shops will have to close . |
| 10 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 11 | There would normally be five peaks where the fingers were forming but if the limb bud , accidentally , was wider than normal , a sixth peak could form , giving the sixth finger . |
| 12 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that if the Sun were an oblate spheroid ( squashed at its poles ) , this would also have the effect of causing the orbit of Mercury to precess . |
| 14 | Often there will be a clause in a partnership agreement stating that if a band member leaves the band . |
| 15 | The memo continues by stating that if the group who were to be part of the first squadron returned by road , they would waste too much time and should therefore be flown back to collect the new vehicles and supplies needed at Kufra . |
| 16 | Both sides want to be the last to put forward a proposal , reckoning that if no rate is set , a court will pin the blame on whoever was last to reject one . |
| 17 | The agency requires studies to show how much spray residue is left on crops after harvesting and if the pesticide breaks down safely in water . |
| 18 | The governor also had enough , however , and sent a message to the Cardinal saying that if the excommunication threat was carried out Landriani would be hanged outside the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 19 | Lord Campbell , upholding the validity of the Act , refused to investigate the internal workings of Parliament saying that if the Act appeared valid on its face , then it must be accepted by the courts . |
| 20 | The Committee is quoting the Heilbron Report , and appears to be saying that if the public thinks that a particular law covers certain activities and in fact it does cover these activities , then it should for that reason continue to cover only these activities . |
| 21 | To revert to our example of the equation , they are saying that if the subject-matter lies within the tribunal 's jurisdiction , the factors within the bracket constituting that subject-matter will not be reassessed . |
| 22 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 23 | In Prescott v Bulldog Tools Ltd [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 869 the court adopted a more pragmatic approach by saying that if the defendant genuinely felt he needed an examination of the plaintiff which involved the risk of a real but short-term injury , the court could balance the plaintiff 's objections against the defendant 's request to ensure a fair determination of the issues . |
| 24 | It goes without saying that if the debtor has employed undue influence or misrepresentation in order to persuade the surety to enter into the transaction and the creditor has knowledge that this has happened , the security will be unenforceable . |
| 25 | In a many-to-many binary relationship , the relationship becomes a member record , its key is made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and if the entity is the carrier of attributes , these become fields of that record . |
| 26 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 27 | Now a way of determine determining if if a score is relatively high compared to the rest of them , is to look at the Z score yeah ? |
| 28 | He was put in an oxygen tent with alarms set up to go off if he stopped breathing or if the oxygen in his blood dropped too low . |
| 29 | Some workers believe they can see through the ‘ emperor 's clothes ’ , arguing that if a fear of strangers is not actually an illusion , it is irredeemably elusive . |
| 30 | It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect . |