Example sentences of "if [verb] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even agreed syllabuses , drawn up for a particular locality , only suggest ideas and very general outlines ; if given in any detail they will be more or less inappropriate for this particular pupil or this actual class .
2 Some manufacturers pack 20 litre quantities in square sectioned metal drums but these are difficult to handle and tend to corrode , spoiling the contents , if stored for any period of time .
3 If a geneticist speaks loosely of a ‘ gene for behaviour X ’ , he does not mean that there is a gene which would cause behaviour X if inserted into any animal .
4 It marks , if implemented to any extent , a fundamental change in how primary schools will in the future be organised .
5 The Policy Advisory Committee expressed the view that ‘ some indecent acts other than sexual intercourse , especially if repeated over any length of time , can perhaps be as harmful as sexual intercourse , and that they represent just as much an abuse of the familial relationship as acts of sexual intercourse . ’
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