Example sentences of "be [adj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 2 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 3 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 4 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 5 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 6 | Coping strategies which are sometimes suggested , like making a mental agreement with yourself or even an actual arrangement with the other party , to stand over an arm 's length away and promise not to move from your spot , are sensible if the temperature really soars . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would have been different if the trapdoor had been the actual door of the furnace ; or if the coffin had been dragged by visible human operatives ; or if it had gone smoothly , as by the hand of God or the power of irresistible mechanical principles . |
| 9 | The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box . |
| 10 | The court commented that the situation could have been different if the property concerned was of a very high value , or of an unusual nature , ( eg industrial property ) so as to impose too great a risk upon the surveyor if he accepted liability . |
| 11 | The wave velocity so determined is related to the relevant elastic modulus by equations which are simple if a symmetry axis coincides with the direction of wave propagation , but more complex otherwise . |
| 12 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |
| 13 | Humanism can not necessarily generate those values which are crucial if the market economy is to survive . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 18 | The possibilities of Total Communication are colossal if the practitioner really understands what the children actually perceive when they see teachers using it . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 21 | It would have been helpful if the report 's compilers had included a clinical virologist . |
| 22 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
| 23 | I am sure if The Box is just something you stick the kids down to watch while you get on with something else , harm can be done . |
| 24 | But I think you 're right on temporary annuities , they are good if the rate 's good . |
| 25 | ‘ Would n't it be awful if a cat scratched your heart . ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the transaction might be upset if the debtor had acted as agent for the lender and had been guilty of misrepresentation or undue influence . |
| 27 | It would be cruel if the daughter could be evicted and left to find another home for herself and for her belongings simply because of the accident of the untimely death of the parent within one year . |
| 28 | ‘ It will be devastating if the Milk Race is not here next year , ’ said Lillywhite after holding on to his 20 seconds lead over Norway 's Ole Simensen . |
| 29 | It faces the lost of its major sponsor , but Lillywhite said : ‘ It will be devastating if the Milk Race is not here next year . ’ |
| 30 | Paragraph 3.1.5 could be annoying if the landlord is of an interfering disposition , and could be preceded by the words : ( in the last 6 months of the Term ) The optional words in respect of convenient hours and reasonable prior notice in paragraph 3.2 are of course preferred . |