Example sentences of "if one [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 2 | If one rejects this authenticity condition , then one has to find ways of presenting comprehension tasks so that the learner 's interest is engaged in spite of the artificiality , so that they are induced into co-operating with the contrivance . |
| 3 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 4 | If one accepted this view one had to reject its main rival , the theory of the inheritance of acquired characters proposed by the French biologist Jean Baptiste Lamarck . |
| 5 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 6 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 7 | If one integrates this thinking with the concepts underlying the SBU portfolio grids in strategic analysis , and especially if a successful cost-leadership and limit-pricing policy such as described earlier in this chapter is being pursued , one might expect to see a product ( SBU ) shift from ‘ Fine tuning ’ , through ‘ Pursue ’ , ‘ Awaken ’ , ‘ Scramble ’ and ‘ Salvage ’ , over the product life-cycle . |
| 8 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 9 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 10 | If one knows this bridge , it also puts one ‘ in the picture ’ suspended there over the Thames . |
| 11 | It is interesting to speculate , if one accepts this classification , on the evolution of functions in each human individual . |
| 12 | If one accepts this interpretation then the third-person form would not have the negative connotations defined so sharply by John Lyons . |
| 13 | Even if one accepts this view of the social role of a doctrine of justice , and gives it the priority Rawls assigns to it , his conclusions are not supported by his arguments for at least three reasons . |
| 14 | If one accepts this point , that effective democratic mechanisms within the enterprise may depend , in many branches of production , on having a relatively restricted number of agents involved in decision-making , then a rather awkward question arises : does enterprise democracy then come into conflict with the exploitation of economies of scale and the progressive development of the productive forces ? |