Example sentences of "if [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , to attach the pelmet to the board , either attach the firm side of the touch-and-close fastener to the top edge of the board with steel tacks , if using the first method above , or place a strong drawing pin through each pocket on the tape and into the top edge of the board , bending the returns round the ends of the board . |
| 2 | If using the existing door frame , remove the old door and its hinges |
| 3 | If using the latter method cover pots with a sheet of glass — turned daily to disperse condensation — topped with paper . |
| 4 | Selectivity affects variables or attributes that influence the outcome or the dependent variable : the problem is , if using the experimental mock-up , to separate out this initial selectivity from the impact of the institution , in this case , the military . |
| 5 | His voice had become blank , as if reflecting the utter bleakness of his life . |
| 6 | The Biro is a wily beast , which , if given the least opportunity to make good its escape , will do so . |
| 7 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 8 | We can infer from these studies that horses reared with other horses in a free and enriched environment ( like a large paddock which offers variety and interest ) , if given the extra stimulation of owners who continually expand their mental horizons , will be more intelligent than a horse that never leaves its paddock or continually lives in a stable or yard . |
| 9 | Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory . |
| 10 | as if to emphasise the relative longevity of this sequence , however , it is also possible that some mosaics might pre-date the sequences of simple geometric and Orphic pavements . |
| 11 | Had built a System and a City to deny the power of dreams , filling it with illusions and distractions , as if to kill the inner voices and silence the darkness deep within . |
| 12 | It bowed its ruined head to its chest as if to inspect the squealing assailant now hanging from its buckled shoulder with frantic claws . |
| 13 | In Vienna 's Ringstrasse , Schorske observes , the new representative buildings did not face one another ; instead each faced the street as if to italicize the circular flow . |
| 14 | If replacing the old length of pipe , use flexible corrugated copper tube connector which makes working much easier |
| 15 | Any living individual , if made the identifiable subject of a defamatory attack , may take legal action . |
| 16 | as if to set the final scene , the moon now rode majestically clear of the clouds , forming a hard , bright discus in the star-pitted blackness of the night . |
| 17 | She hesitated , as if seeking the appropriate words . |
| 18 | She is often shown with doves perching on her ; sometimes birds are shown perched on sacral horns or on a double-axe , as if to suggest the invisible presence of the goddess . |
| 19 | Obispal 's gaze drifted towards Meh'Lindi , and he frowned as if adding the final piece to a puzzle which had been perplexing him , but not liking the pattern that he saw . |
| 20 | as if to underline the shifting boundaries of our assumptions , the working group on design and technology has challenged its ‘ subject ’ status , preferring to describe it as a ‘ capability ’ that will be developed not only through design technology , business studies , information technology and home economics , but through most other subjects as well . |
| 21 | She flexed herself , she breathed spasmodically as if to confuse the natural rhythms of her body . |
| 22 | In her own room she stood , her hands clenched and pressed tightly against her breast-bone as if to ease the terrible ache and fear whirling there . |
| 23 | Morse stood where he was , listening , and staring up at the sky as if viewing the unsuspected behaviour of some distant galaxy . |
| 24 | Rohmer proffered it nonchalantly and Pearce sat again , scrutinising it as if examining the small print . |
| 25 | as if to match the tense atmosphere inside the car , the sun had disappeared behind some ominously black clouds that had crept over the horizon . |
| 26 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 27 | Substantial differentials can , however , be observed if comparing the top 20% of the population with the bottom 20% on a scale of ‘ occupational prestige . ’ |
| 28 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 29 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 30 | He saw one man motioning animatedly with his arms , as if to deflect the other boat from its route . |